<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Hello Grahame,</div><div class="">From <a href="https://www.google.com/#q=define+disconfirm" class="">https://www.google.com/#q=define+disconfirm</a> </div><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 21, 2017, at 3:12 PM, Dr Grahame Blackwell <<a href="mailto:grahame@starweave.com" class="">grahame@starweave.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-size: 10pt;" class="">Oh Richard,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-size: 10pt;" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;" class=""><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial; color: navy; font-size: 10pt;" class="">I really do wonder sometimes about your lines of reasoning.<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>And ‘disconfirm’ ?? – I didn’t even know that was a word!<span class=""> P</span>oor old Occam must be spinning in his grave!<span class=""> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>What with ‘disprove’, ‘refute’, ‘rebut’ – ‘disconfirm’ must surely be a case of “multiplying entities (words) beyond necessity”.</span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><img apple-inline="yes" id="35B5F8F4-B0A4-48B6-919C-7320FBB33D0F" height="1052" width="1191" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:417EB5FE-74DD-416E-9CFF-A11E4F407047@hsd1.ca.comcast.net." class=""></div><div>More to come,</div><div> Richard</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></body></html>