(2017-10-18, 10:44 AM)fls Wrote: I don't think they are functionally different.
OK, and so would you then accept that the alternative framing I posed would be in your terms a "confirming" test, and that therefore this example could be described either as a "disconfirming" or as a "confirming" test, given that functionally both framings are the same, and that therefore you haven't provided a definitive example of a(n exclusively) "disconfirming" test? If not, why not?
[Edit: In the above I ought to have used "hypothesis" rather than "test", since that's what we were discussing. As became clear later in this thread, Linda seemed from the start to be unclear as to which of "hypothesis" and "test" she intended her "disconfirming" versus "confirming" distinction to apply, and it seems I succumbed here to that confusion]