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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.
Arguments about nonhuman consciousness range from claims of levels comparable to humans to refutation of any need to study such phenomena.
When I explain that she is a living refutation of her own argument, that she is a demonstration that money works, she looks sceptical.
Make sure the supporting details are complicated and blurry enough to prevent easy refutation.
But perhaps the best refutation of the idea that philosophy and morality are unconnected came, as we might have expected, from Samuel Johnson.
The subsequent unanticipated baby boom, of course, was a salutary refutation of the commission's demographic determinism.
An essay on Leonardo was possibly intended as a refutation of Ruskin, whose emphasis on the moral value of art Pater directly opposed.
Below I first restate their argument point by point, which is indented, and then offer my refutation of each point.
The author went on to criticize his refutation of productivity-related theories.
A refutation of their particular scientific or philosophical proof of the existence of God would not have shaken their own faith one iota.
He offers a convincing and amusing point-by-point refutation of the criticisms.
The story is Kipling's brilliant refutation of the widely accepted saw that time heals all wounds.
He recommended that special attention be given to the refutation of these fallacies.
For the rest I think I may be excused here from a detailed refutation of all these doctrines.
This difficulty is fatal to Lewis's refutation of Manicheanism and, more significantly, to his moral argument.
Thus for Popper the logic of science is exclusively the deductive logic of empirical refutation.
Tautologies are statements true by definition and so are quite incapable of empirical refutation or prediction.
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.
Further, we designed refutation texts according to this trichotomous framework of epistemic justification.
This hastily written pamphlet had as its principal object the refutation of the views of the utopians.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The theory of preoccupancy I reject absolutely, but cannot here set forth its refutation.
They will give a sufficient refutation to the charge that I am a disunionist.
How then, without a word of explanation, could Plato assign to them the refutation of their own tenets?
The conclusion at which we must arrive is that the Parmenides is not a refutation of the Eleatic philosophy.
Why, Mr. President, the Senator's own speech is a refutation of its own argument.
Augustine directed his attention more particularly to the refutation of Pelagian heresies and human Depravity.
He turned on his heel, disgusted at this refutation of his theories.
Besides this refutation of sproat's shameful trick there were many others.
His works are a refutation of Paganism, and an apology of Christianism.
Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calculation is no refutation of the rule.
Every step of the work must be documented beyond any refutation.
He could assert now, without fear of refutation, that Stryker had lied.
What should be the climax of a triumphant argument becomes its refutation.
For now, as always, I am unequal to the refutation of not-being.
As the decade ended, indigenous groups issued Citizen Plus as a direct refutation of this federal assimilative strategy.
Never had he heard such jargon of scholastic philosophy, such fine-drawn distinctions, such cross-fire of major and minor, proposition, syllogism, attack and refutation.
Two posts came in, and brought no refutation, public or private.
The people, in the case of which we speak, could justify its prejudice against Roger Chillingworth by no fact or argument worthy of serious refutation.
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