If so, simple emotivism of the sort described is refuted because the sincerity conditions for making the judgment require the motivation not present in the amoralist.
In a letter published in a follow-up edition of The Humanist, Sagan confirmed that he would have been willing to sign such a statement had it described and refuted the principal tenets of astrological belief.
"A great progressive" was how Schoenberg described Brahms, determinedly refuting the much touted idea that still persists today that the latter was essentially conservative.
So modal fictionalism, at least of the variety described, is self-refuting.
However, the statistical significance for many of the changes described seems to refute this.
By my opinion, however, equations are very useful for describing or even refuting particular models (see K.R. Popper), however, they are much less useful for describing and more or less useless for refuting complex theories (see T.S. Kuhn).
Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain is pledging to make public this week his tax returns and financial assets to refute what he described over the weekend as "apocryphal" documents showing that he and other senior conservative politicians had received payouts from a secret account maintained by their party.
MADRID — Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy of Spain pledged on Saturday to provide "complete transparency" about his own financial assets and those of other politicians in his party to refute what he described as "apocryphal" documents showing that he and others had received regular payouts from a secret parallel account maintained by the party.
As word of AARP's position set off debate in Washington on Friday, the group's chief executive, Barry Rand, issued a formal statement saying that the group's position had not changed in any substantive way and refuting what he described as "misleading" media reports.
Mr Mas has angrily refuted the accusations, describing them as an attempt by the Spanish state to derail the democratic process.
