The act of determining that something is false.
The speech act of answering an attack on your assertions.
1 In all refutation , keep close to the fundamental principles of the question.
2 The candidate was too busy talking about hope to stoop to refutation .
3 It was hardly an elegant refutation , but it had to be said.
4 The justice of the Single Tax is beyond all question of refutation .
5 Now much of it is so false that it needs no refutation .
6 The recent history of our colleges is a refutation of this conclusion.
7 This incident seemed a refutation of the charge that she was calculating.
8 But Mrs. Leonard herself is the strongest refutation of her own argument.
9 POLUS: A proposition which is harder of refutation than the other, Socrates.
10 Mr. George Frederick Augustus Howard blushed indignant refutation of the calumnious charge.
11 For now, as always, I am unequal to the refutation of not-being.
12 The supposition is too grossly unreasonable, too monstrous, to require labored refutation .
13 He also refutes Rashi at times, but his refutation is often wrong.
14 It was misreported as the definitive refutation of the entire MMR-autism hypothesis.
15 Is not a fact the complete and unanswerable refutation of its impossibility?
16 Swift's head is a refutation of phrenology, being small, sloping and ordinary.
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