The most recent spate of piracy has established three irrefutable principles.
The simple irrefutable rule is: Follow the money.
As if history makes that principle irrefutable, the Senate Republicans reported in their letter, "Not since 1932 has the Senate confirmed in a presidential election year a Supreme Court nominee to a vacancy arising in that year.
Police commissioner Ian Johnston said: "Body worn camera evidence is impactful and irrefutable and the principles of securing and preserving evidence are enhanced by them.
"By rejecting the irrefutable and universally accepted principle that those wounded in hostilities must be treated, the parties to the conflict in Syria are setting a dangerous precedent," the panel warned.
Another phrase used by Bradley in his preliminary discussion of metaphysics is "the study of first principles," or ultimate, irrefutable truths.
We now have irrefutable evidence that the system does not respect that principle.
The brief moment in late 2008 when 'hope' was more than just a slogan, when progressives believed that an irrefutable case could and would be made for progressive principles, when it appeared rationality would become a guiding force in American politics, is long gone.
But that, as the play would have you believe, is love's irrefutable whimsy, and it is in the service of that principle that Mascarille labors.
Larry Stone, a national baseball writer for The Seattle Times, said he had voted for McGwire under the principle that a player must be presumed innocent unless irrefutable proof of performance-enhancing drug use existed.
That is a basic principle of economics and antitrust - and it is seemingly irrefutable.
