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confutation

Roget-categorie 479

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
4.4. Reasoning processes
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#479. Confutation

zelfstandig naamwoord

confutation, refutationanswer, complete answerdisproof, conviction, redargution, invalidationexposure, expositionclincherretortreductio ad absurdumknock down argument, tu quoque argument [Lat.]sockdolager [U.S.], correction etc. 572.1; dissuasion etc. 616.

werkwoord

confute, refute, disproveparry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue, expose, show the fallacy of, defeatdemolish, break etc. (destroy) 162overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidatesilenceput to silence, reduce to silenceclinch an argument, clinch a questiongive one a setdown, stop the mouth, shut uphave, have on the hip.
not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet.
be confuted &c. — failexpose one's weak point, show one's weak point.
counter evidence etc. 468.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

confuting, confuted, etc. v. — capable of refutationrefutable, confutable, defeasible.
contravene (counter evidence) 468.
condemned on one's own showing, condemned out of one's own mouth.

uitdrukking

the argument falls to the ground, cadit quaestio [Lat.], it does not hold water, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo" [Terence]; his argument was demolished by new evidence.

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