In terms of 'refuting' the ToL hypotheses, we refute the causal notion of a Tree of Life because clearly it is false.
The existence of late-successional non-fixing close relatives would suggest that late-successional N fixers were feasible in terms of evolutionary history, thereby refuting the phylogenetic constraints hypothesis.
The problem is that however much Draghi tried, and by the end of the press conference he was not only very irritated by the endless taper questions and stumbling in terms of explanation, he could not refute the point that cutting to €60bn/month could be a staging post to further cuts, because it is simply not refutable.
If anyone manages to show that there is no statistically significant trend of topologically congruent trees, the STOL will be found wanting in terms of predictive power and effectively refuted.
According to the manifest image, people think and they do things for reasons, and both of these "can occur only within a framework of conceptual thinking in terms of which [they] can be criticized, supported, refuted, in short, evaluated" (PSIM, in SPR: 6; in ISR: 374).
Now, to be sure, Hume is aware that Newton decisively refuted the Mechanical Philosophy's program which insisted that explanations be cast in terms of the impact of colliding bodies (section 4.2).
These resources could be used to develop interventions that describe the pros of vaccinating in foundation-framed messages or refute classic vaccine hesitations and negative attitudes using arguments framed in terms of the foundations the hesitation is based in.
In normal times central bank monetary policy is conducted in terms of, and best thought of in terms of, the target interest rate — and I won't have to worry about refuting the inflationary scare stories of Allan Meltzer et al. So the LM curve will go back into the drawer.
The Court couched its decision in terms of constituents because to say the reality -- outsiders should be permitted to contribute more than $123,200 per election cycle -- is to refute it.
Refute that all you want, but from the 1979 movie 10 through to last week's release of The Social Network, women are still discussed purely in terms of being "hot or not".
