confutation
Roget-categorie 479
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.4. Reasoning processes
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Confutation
zelfstandig naamwoord
confutation,
refutation —
answer,
complete answer —
disproof,
conviction,
redargution†,
invalidation —
exposure,
exposition —
clincher —
retort —
reductio ad absurdum —
knock down argument,
tu quoque argument [Lat.] —
sockdolager [U.S.],
correction
etc.
572.1;
dissuasion
etc.
616.
werkwoord
confute,
refute,
disprove —
parry,
negative,
controvert,
rebut,
confound,
disconfirm,
redargue†,
expose,
show the fallacy of,
defeat —
demolish,
break
etc.
(destroy)
162 —
overthrow,
overturn scatter to the winds,
explode,
invalidate —
silence —
put to silence,
reduce to silence —
clinch an argument,
clinch a question —
give one a setdown†,
stop the mouth,
shut up —
have,
have on the hip.
not leave a leg to stand on,
cut the ground from under one's feet.
be confuted
&c. —
fail —
expose one's weak point,
show one's weak point.
counter evidence
etc.
468.
bijvoeglijk naamwoord
confuting,
confuted,
etc.
v. —
capable of refutation —
refutable,
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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