Then, and again with the publication of "Portnoy's Complaint," he was arraigned as an anti-Semite and a self-hating Jew, charges he did not so much refute as transcend, turning the drama into grist for subsequent imaginative flights.
"I'm not Rudy Lite," he likes to say, in a way that implies that his three white opponents-City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, City Comptroller Alan Hevesi, and Public Advocate Mark Green-all are… Giuliani didn't so much refute the logic of the Dinkins coalition as use it against him.
But these astute observations do not so much refute the LNC as much as demonstrate (through what Barnes calls the Fallacy of the Dropped Qualification) the need for Aristotle's crucial codicil: sea water, for example, cannot be both healthful and unhealthful for the same experiencer at the same time and in the same respect.
She thus does not so much refute Freud's account of the Oedipal Complex and the little girl's purported masculinity as re-present its primal crime against women, the Oedipal exclusion of maternal dependency, thereby altering the scene of its representation.
Their point was not so much to refute official information as to interrupt it, confuse it, scramble it.
But his love of effects risks distracting his attention from the storyline, and it is not really an accusation that he does much to refute.
People may be overconfident in their beliefs because they have accumulated evidence to support them, when in reality much evidence refuting their beliefs was overlooked or ignored, evidence which, if considered, would lead to less confidence in one's beliefs.
That's great for those 539 investors, but it doesn't do much to refute the conventional wisdom, particularly for the casual end of the angel market, which crowdfunding would most resemble.
As McCain remembers it, Tower was the victim of enemies to the right and the left after the Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony -- much of it eventually refuted -- about Tower's personal behavior.
They admitted as much Friday when they refuted the words of their owner, with team Vice President Gary Sacks telling the Times' Brad Turner, "Ultimately, the decision was made by myself and the front office... all this other stuff that's out there, to me, it's just ridiculous".
Nevertheless, he thought much of what Chomsky had to say was "practical" and that it was "difficult to refute much of what he says about the way Western society is set up".
