"I cannot refute the claim that there is a network of homosexuals.
Moreover, Ms. Schulman does not — because she cannot — refute the fact that Israel is indeed far ahead of its Arab neighbors on gay rights.
Sampling was performed with a peristaltic pump, and we cannot refute the possibility that tubing inlet shifted during the sampling.
Randi cannot refute the fact that Teach for America has been a leader not only on teacher diversity and inclusion work, but also on infusing culturally responsive pedagogy into its training; and through that process of evolving, the organization has recognized that diversity work happens best through partnerships with communities.
We therefore cannot refute the hypothesis that a history of gallstones or cholecystectomy may promote colorectal carcinogenesis.
Despite this, however, we cannot refute the criticism that an underlying response style might have led to our results.
Our current results cannot confirm or refute that hypothesis, but they at least show that if such a response occurred here, it is incomplete and fails to normalise the microvascular response to insulin.
However, one cannot refute the possibility that the catecholamine surge may influence the QT interval indirectly via hypokalemia, because hypokalemia (as well as hypocalcemia and hypomagnesemia) can cause a prolongation in the QT interval [ 4, 7- 9].
Similarly, although the low number of QTL identified per trait may indicate that the expression of these traits is under the control of one major or a limited number of genes, we cannot refute the possibility that it may also reflect the limited lack of power of the study.
If they make a point that you cannot refute, the judge will assume that you are unable to, and therefore, it is a valid point.
Second, and relatedly, one cannot refute the Fregean claim that proper names have both a sense and a reference and that propositional attitude ascriptions are sensitive to sense and not just reference simply by producing sentences like (8).
