| The contest disproved the general belief that the youngsters of today were more inclined towards western music than classical. |
| The Ptolemaic theory of all the planets encircling the earth could now be disproved once and for all. |
| Why would Hersh write something so easily disproved by simple access to the source document? |
| He knew that the enthusiasm of the humanists had been disproved by modern history, which remorselessly dehumanised the world. |
| His ideas are obviously foolish, easily disproved, an affront to any reasoning person. |
| They are not disproved by counter-arguments of the Kantian sort, any more than they are proved by those of the Newtonians. |
