Sentence examples for argument refuted from inspiring English sources

They said this argument refuted the view of Justice Antonin Scalia that Mr. Bush and the country might be harmed by allowing the counting of "questionable" ballots.

Koestler, who was Jewish, claimed that his argument refuted anti-Semitism by showing that European Jews were not related to the Jews whom some anti-Semites blame for the killing of Christ.

And always the argument refutes itself.

But you construct an equally impressive argument refuting my view.

The editor of the MIT Technology Review has gone so far as to offer a $20,000£11,00000) prize to any gerontologist who could put together a serious argument refuting his claims.

Perhaps the strongest argument refuting Mr. Stringer's accusation is the outcome of the case that resulted in Mr. Spitzer's resignation: he was not charged with a crime.

There is no widespread agreement on the status of these platonistic responses, and so, as is the case with the epistemological argument, it would be extremely controversial, if not downright implausible, to claim that the multiple-reductions argument refutes platonism.

We will return to this argument (very briefly) in section 3; for now, we can simply note that, like the epistemological argument and the multiple-reductions argument, the Ockham's-razor-based argument is very controversial, and the claim that this argument refutes platonism is (at the very least) tendentious.

The initial argument of the Incoherence focuses on apodeixis and the demonstrative character of the arguments refuted therein.

The stains and their interpretations have been contested, and the evidence for their arguments refuted by several authors [22], [25] [27], [37].

Looking back over that piece, which prompted a surprising amount of hostile response, I realize I made many cogent arguments refuting this nonsense, but for some reason omitted the most important.