Disconfirming used in a sentence

Disconfirming in a sentence as an adjective

It means those who can't entertain disconfirming thoughts have been offended.

Maybe they think these things work despite abundant disconfirming evidence.

Some people are also capable of disconfirming their beliefs instead of just confirming what they thought they already knew.

It’s not disconfirming since it’s possible that eating fats is bad but also that replacing fats with sugar is bad too or possibly even worse than eating fats.

Yeah, I'd like to see other sorts of questions that you can only get right by looking for disconfirming evidence, but that don't have anything to do with choosing a sequence of numbers.

It is a good practice to not view results as 100% definitive and be willing to revise your ideas in the light of disconfirming observations — just not in the light of disconfirming stories.

But even in foreign policy where I know the reporting to be untrustworthy I don't discard an article out of hand, I'm just extremely skeptical and search out disconfirming evidence and articles.

"A conspiracy theory is where you believe in a theory where no matter how much disconfirming evidence comes in, you somehow convert that disconfirming evidence into part of the conspiracy.

We also log and audit all actions taken by these authenticated users once they've established an SSH session or database connection, so identifying or disconfirming a potential breach becomes much easier.

And there’s some disconfirming evidence for the vitamin D hypothesis: people of African ancestry seem to do okay when they live at higher latitudes and most of us spend most of our time indoors, anyway, and also seem to do okay.

When someone would post a comment confronting him on his blog, he pretty much said "It's my blog and I can say what I want - you are just a guest here, and I delete comments I don't like," While it's his right to do so, it's not exactly the attitude of someone looking for disconfirming perspectives or dialogue.

The statement of the facts has not much to do with science, rather it’s the choice to propose beliefs drawn from them, and whether this remains rooted in disconfirming your own hypotheses with intellectual honesty or becomes an unfalsifiable just-so story to reaffirm a believe you’ve otherwise arbitrarily chosen for non-scientific reasons.

>One possible explanation is that highly logical and rational people are not only more likely to disbelieve politically-inconsistent news stories along tribal lines, but they are also more likely to seek out further disconfirming information, thus exaggerating their disbelief of politically-inconsistent stories.