Now a small man can dig for a proof or a disproof, and any sort of man can syllogize for a confirmation or a refutation. |
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Arguments about nonhuman consciousness range from claims of levels comparable to humans to refutation of any need to study such phenomena. |
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When I explain that she is a living refutation of her own argument, that she is a demonstration that money works, she looks sceptical. |
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Make sure the supporting details are complicated and blurry enough to prevent easy refutation. |
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But perhaps the best refutation of the idea that philosophy and morality are unconnected came, as we might have expected, from Samuel Johnson. |
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The subsequent unanticipated baby boom, of course, was a salutary refutation of the commission's demographic determinism. |
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An essay on Leonardo was possibly intended as a refutation of Ruskin, whose emphasis on the moral value of art Pater directly opposed. |
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Below I first restate their argument point by point, which is indented, and then offer my refutation of each point. |
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The author went on to criticize his refutation of productivity-related theories. |
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A refutation of their particular scientific or philosophical proof of the existence of God would not have shaken their own faith one iota. |
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He offers a convincing and amusing point-by-point refutation of the criticisms. |
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The story is Kipling's brilliant refutation of the widely accepted saw that time heals all wounds. |
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He recommended that special attention be given to the refutation of these fallacies. |
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For the rest I think I may be excused here from a detailed refutation of all these doctrines. |
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This difficulty is fatal to Lewis's refutation of Manicheanism and, more significantly, to his moral argument. |
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Thus for Popper the logic of science is exclusively the deductive logic of empirical refutation. |
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Tautologies are statements true by definition and so are quite incapable of empirical refutation or prediction. |
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The ease of publishing on the Net is such that if someone posts something obviously erroneous, someone else can easily post a rebuttal, refutation, or correction. |
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Further, we designed refutation texts according to this trichotomous framework of epistemic justification. |
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This hastily written pamphlet had as its principal object the refutation of the views of the utopians. |
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I would just like to encourage the government to be more honest in its refutation of some of these arguments. |
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I will argue that this idea, when formulated concretely, is subject to overwhelming empirical refutation. |
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The refutation of these arguments does not imply, however, that every possible action of humans in space is morally legitimate. |
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No potatoes shall be exported from the relevant buffer zone until the refutation of the suspected occurrence. |
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Our speaker now comes to the confutatio, the moment of refutation of the opponent's arguments one by one. |
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However, the study also shows that the response at a national level to these xenophobic tends to fall short of direct refutation. |
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It is beyond refutation for decades that smoking causes lung and throat cancer, but what can we do to avoid brain cancer? |
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Which is not exactly a refutation or a denial so much as a talking point aimed at giving political partisans something to say. |
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The metaphor that America is like a garden is not a gimmick, but powerful refutation of neoclassical economics. |
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Citing the findings of previous interpreters could also be a way of letting readers know that a translation was itself a conjectural reconstruction open to refutation. |
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He devoted himself to a thorough refutation of the second point. |
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This is certainly not in any sense a refutation of free market economics. |
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Charlus' physical bravery is Proust's refutation of an ancient antigay stereotype. |
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No one dwelt on it, but it was an unvoiced refutation of all Lapointe's arguments. |
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The right-wing Libertarian counterargument, coming as it does from a group that regards property rights as the highest moral principle, is useful as a refutation. |
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Some claim that Kant's discussion amounts to a refutation of physicotheology and thus does not result in an argument from design. |
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Theology, including works on heresiography in refutation of Batini doctrines. |
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Indeed, in the Popperian sense, I have argued that PNG provides a refutation of any universal claims for progressive education. |
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I must confess to some disappointment that there is no refutation, distancing, or at least clarification on this from the Church authorities in Rome. |
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The refutation of plausible hypotheses is the way that science progresses. |
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The Qur'an records the conversation that will take place between Allah and Jesus on the Day of Judgment, regarding the false belief of his divinity, and his refutation of those allegations. |
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His whole reasoning is witty and characteristic, but his extensive refutation shows that the case for immaculacy had to be argued. |
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Labour's lost love Let's go German Sin-free ale The father of fracking ReprintsGeorge Mitchell, who died on July 26th, was a one-man refutation of the declinist hypothesis. |
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He won over the House with a powerful refutation of Maurice's allegations. |
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Moreover, I have often pointed out that any such refutation is fallible. |
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