Taken collectively, these criticisms limit rather than refute the functional model.
The unspoken risk is that, rather than refuting the prejudices the BNP inflames, other parties will be panicked into pandering to them.
"Rather than refute it, we set that as our goal", Mr Tata explained yesterday.Second, the car will come in three variants (frugal, frugaler, frugalest).
Rather than refute, they mainly repeated the same arguments made in their constructive speeches.
On this view, rather than refuting physicalism, the existence of explanatory gaps may confirm it.
Second, this novel hypothesis on migraine pathophysiology incorporates existing knowledge into a new, more complex framework, rather than refuting prior studies.
If the answer to this last question is "yes," then the legitimacy of the concept of intrinsic value is in fact confirmed rather than refuted.
Pollock goes on to say that contemporary epistemologists largely see figuring out what knowledge is as their goal, rather than refuting skepticism.
Rather than refute and dismiss competing views, Śāntarakṣita seems to recognize a utility in their engagement, one that serves the teleological function of leading the reader to (in his opinion) the highest philosophical view, the Madhyamaka.
