Sentence examples for confute from inspiring English sources

More recently, in Haaretz, Mr Morris complained with some justice that Mr Karsh had sought to rubbish the exhaustive arguments of a long book by singling out only a couple of pages.It is true that some infelicitous pieces of selective quotation do not confute a whole thesis.

Such an extreme position endangered the religious toleration constitutionally granted to Unitarians, and Blandrata invited the Unitarian theologian Faustus Socinus from Italy to confute Dávid.

Though some, because of the early date of the eruption that destroyed Pompeii (ad 79), suggest a Jewish origin, the threefold Christian symbols, cross, prayer, and quotation, seem to confute them; moreover, the letters of the square can be rearranged to spell Oro Te, Pater; oro Te, Pater; sanas: "I pray to thee, Father.

There is a variety of widely different ways of taking the world as a whole: depending on which aspect or aspects of experience the individual metaphysician finds especially significant; each claims to be comprehensive and to confute the claims of its rivals, yet none has succeeded in establishing itself as the obviously correct account.

Cudworth's first major work, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism Is Confuted and its Impossibility Demonstrated (1678), aroused considerable theological opposition.

His first Treatise was devoted to confuting the royalist doctrine of the divine right of kings by descent from, an argument then taken very seriously and reflecting the idea of government as an aspect of the divinely ordained Great Chain of Being.

Tombs confutes his fellow historians who insist that England should in the 21st century be denied a distinctive history of its own, but instead be subsumed into "British history".