When I explain that she is a living refutation of her own argument, that she is a demonstration that money works, she looks sceptical. |
An essay on Leonardo was possibly intended as a refutation of Ruskin, whose emphasis on the moral value of art Pater directly opposed. |
Tautologies are statements true by definition and so are quite incapable of empirical refutation or prediction. |
Doubts and refutations were presented from the perspective of humanistic atheism and agnosticism. |
They consider all reasonable explanations, rebuttals and refutations as provocations to China. |
Many philosophers have since attempted their own refutations of Cartesian skepticism. |