Definition of "refutation" []

• The act of refuting. (noun)
• Something, such as an argument, that refutes someone or something. (noun)

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• "If Voltaire had studied Hume, moreover, he might have learned how futile and inappropriate it is in the long run to examine a religion otherwise than in its most fundamental and comprehensive general ideas, and how narrow and superficial would every philosophic appreciation ultimately find what he called refutation by facts."
• "Two points I would make in refutation to his comments:"
• "You ground your argument in linguistic logic, and the only refutation is pedantry."