What is another word for refutations?

Pronunciation: [ɹɪfjuːtˈe͡ɪʃənz] (IPA)

There are several synonyms for the word "refutations", which refers to the act of proving something wrong or false. Some common synonyms include "rebuttal", "denial", "contradiction", "disproof", and "repudiation". Each of these synonyms emphasizes a slightly different aspect of refuting an argument or claim. For example, "rebuttal" suggests a point-by-point dissection of an argument, while "denial" implies a more categorical rejection of a claim. "Contradiction" suggests that the refutation rests on showing that an argument contradicts itself, while "disproof" implies a more empirical testing of a claim's factual accuracy. Ultimately, the choice of a synonym will depend on the specific context and the rhetorical goal of the writer or speaker.

Usage examples for Refutations

Yet none of them will see it-Taylor will still write his refutations, etc.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
According to a report of the Nuernberg delegates the negotiations proceeded as follows: The Emperor declared that the Confutation would be forwarded to the Lutherans, but with the understanding that they must come to an agreement with the Catholic princes and estates; furthermore that they spare His Imperial Majesty with their refutations and make no further reply and, above all, that they keep this and other writings to themselves, nor let them pass out of their hands, for instance, by printing them or in any other way.
"Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church"
Friedrich Bente
This singular boy seems to have no way of communicating with his species except through defiances and refutations.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan

Famous quotes with Refutations

  • ...MacDonald, in a veritable furor of intellectual integrity and moral honesty sets out to hunt down his "mistakes" without ever changing the record in the slightest, his technique being to annotate his earlier articles with refutations of himself.
    Dwight Macdonald
  • Science progresses by trial and error, by conjectures and refutations. Only the fittest theories survive.
    Alan Chalmers
  • There has never been a just one, never an honorable one — on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful — as usual — will shout for the war. The pulpit will — warily and cautiously — object — at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, "It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it." Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers — as earlier — but do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation — pulpit and all — will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception.
    Mark Twain
  • Yet instead of accepting the refutations the followers of Marx re-interpreted both the theory and the evidence in order to make them agree. In this way they rescued the theory from refutation; but they did so at the price of adopting a device which made it irrefutable. They thus gave a 'conventionalist twist' to the theory; and by this stratagem they destroyed its much advertised claim to scientific status.
    Karl Marx

Related words: rebuttal, refuting, refute, arguments, rebuttals, counterarguments

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