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What does refute mean?

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  1. (transitive) To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
  2. (transitive) To deny the truth or correctness of (something).
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Cornelius mashes sounds together like a child shaking a kaleidoscope mashes colours, but with a deliberation and precision that refute chaos.
Some Austrian economists have tried to refute this argument by denying the very existence of an income effect.
Dembski's latest attempt to refute Darwinian theory is by arguing that in a closed system, information can only decrease.
Fortunately, I do not have to refute the labor theory of value, it's already been done, see Human Action by Mises.
It is the nullification of public discourse, for how can one refute accusations grounded in ethnicity?
This is an enormous leap, for the bulk of Prof. Budziszewski's arguments aim to refute opponents of capital punishment.

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