New Relativism, as we shall see, offers a novel take on the old question of alethic relativism and gives weight to Alasdair MacIntyre's observation that relativism may have been refuted a number of times too often, whereas genuinely refutable doctrines only need to be refuted once (MacIntyre 1982: 22).
In opposition to Mill's view, according to which even logic and pure mathematics are empirical (i.e., are justifiable or refutable by observation), the logical positivists essentially following Frege and Russell had already declared mathematics to be true only by virtue of postulates and definitions.
With this thought — self-serving but not easily refutable — he takes his leave.
Mr. Phillipos's lawyers, Derege B. Demissie and Susan B. Church, said in the court papers that the charges against their client were "refutable".
None of these assertions is refutable.
"If you say it's for survival, or it's just for play, or it's a side-effect of other [adaptive] abilities, then that is a reductive explanation," he continues, condensing the other three curations into refutable bites.
Evidence of regret is not refutable in the same way.
Why did the Vice-President choose to tell such an easily refutable untruth?
ACCURACY -- While Republicans may argue with the cost or likely efficacy of some of Mr. Kerry's policy initiatives, this spot has no refutable claims.
Equally refutable is the Brock allegation passed on by Bruni that while believing Vincent Foster committed suicide, Ted Olson (then our lawyer, now solicitor general of the United States) "encouraged conjecture that Foster might have been murdered".
For example, the theorem mentioned establishes a connection between falsifiability and testability, but one that is more attenuated than the naïve Popperian envisions: it is not necessary that the hypotheses under test be directly falsifiable; rather, there must be ways of strengthening each hypothesis that yield a countable number of refutable "subhypotheses".
