Sentence examples for ability to refute from inspiring English sources

His ability to refute the arguments of others, together with his aggressiveness, self-confidence, irritability, and bad temper, made many enemies for him.

"I feel like the ability to refute something is not that incredibly difficult.

This limits our ability to refute or confirm the impact of recovery planning on species status, and has the potential to reduce public confidence in government expenditures.

This set of loci has previously proven its ability to refute the hypothesis of cryptic speciation, thereby promoting S. cephaloptera as a case study for population genetics (Marlétaz et al. 2008).

The truism that one can always save a theory by rejecting auxiliary assumptions or discrediting data reports of observation does not change the facts that, in practice, observational results are taken to refute theories, and the ability to predict and explain a wide range of observable phenomena better than rivals remains the gold standard in scientific method.

Thomas Aquinas argued that God's omnipotence should be understood as the ability to do all things that are possible: he attempted to refute the idea that God's inability to perform illogical actions challenges his omnipotence.

These are commonly used to evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of a clinical test in its ability to confirm or refute the presence of a disease.

This prognosis is hard to refute.

Uddyotakara undertook to refute Nagarjuna and Dignaga.

My mind raced to refute this aphorism.

That's a hard argument to refute.