confutable

English

confutable (not comparable)

(archaic or formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
- 1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 20, in John Owen, editor, Scepsis Scientifica‎, London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., published 1885, page 152:
  That Caucasus enjoys the Sunbeams three parts of the Nights Vigils; that Danubius ariseth from the Pyrenæan Hills: That the Earth is higher towards the North: are opinions truly charged on Aristotle by the Restorer of Epicurus; and all easily confutable falsities.
- 1936, A. J. Ayer, chapter 1, in Language, Truth, and Logic‎, London: Victor Gollancz, published 1947, page 38:
  Nor can we accept the suggestion that a sentence should be allowed to be factually significant if, and only if, it expresses something which is definitely confutable by experience.

that can be confuted

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