"rebut this argument" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when you want to challenge or counter someone's argument. Here is an example: "Despite their claims, I believe that the new tax policy will have a positive impact on the economy. I can rebut this argument by presenting data from multiple studies that show a correlation between lower taxes and increased consumer spending."
Bhagwati could undoubtedly rebut this argument, but unfortunately he devotes only a single page to it.
In his interview, Mr. Rumsfeld seemed to be at pains to rebut this argument by pointing to the role of United States Special Operations forces in the south.
In its newspaper and broadcast ads, the union has sought to rebut this argument by noting that Verizon had $4 billion in profit last year and asserting that its chief executive, Ivan G. Seidenberg, received many thousands of stock options last year.
[In our supplemental material (http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/members/2005/7720/suppl.pdf), we evaluate three other arguments against testing pesticides on human subjects.] In this article, we have attempted to rebut this argument by showing that in some types of studies, the benefits would outweigh the risks.
The available neurophysiological data on this are very limited, but suggest that there are no substantial differences between the spatial tuning of the chromatic L/M- and S-cone opponent systems in macaque V1 (Johnson et al., 2001, 2004), so tending to rebut this argument.
(Though perhaps one could present Cassel as Exhibit A in rebutting this argument).
Some proponents of centered incompatibilist theories have added to the requirements of the rather simple view we have been considering, with the aim of rebutting this argument.
Democrats rebutted this argument.
It has been claimed that this feature can be exploited to rebut the argument and to re-install contextualism (see Mermin 1999 and Appleby 2000, both in Other Internet Resources).
Simmons has recently rebutted this second line of argument (Simmons 2013; but cf. Stilz 2013).
However, Walm did step in to rebut the argument, writing: "The price the hedge funds paid for the debt is irrelevant.
