'refute on' is not correct or used in written English.
It should instead be 'refute.' For example, "He attempted to refute her argument, but she was unfazed."
The empirical researches of William Harvey (1578 1657), published in his Observations on the Generation of Animals in 1651, claimed to refute on empirical grounds the theory of the male and female semen utilized in the posthumously (1677) published accounts of Descartes, and the earlier atomistic accounts of Pierre Gassendi (1592 1655) and Nathaniel Highmore (1613 85) (Fisher 2006 in Smith 2006).
Not implying modalism about the Son, this position is harder to refute on New Testament grounds, although mainstream theologians and some subordinationist unitarians reject it as inconsistent with New Testament language from which we should infer that the Holy Spirit is a self (Clarke 1738, 147).
Ms Morgan refutes on factual grounds one of the objections – that her preferred candidate was wrong about Ofsted's responsibility for failures of child protection.
Mr. Boyce's script has a ruthless and magical tic -- after many of the episodes, the story is refuted on screen.
The view once maintained that Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit represents the result of translations from Middle Indic into imperfect Sanskrit has been refuted on the basis of comparable linguistic features found in inscriptions.
We do not discuss these fallacies in detail here as they have been refuted on numerous occasions (e.g., Young [1985], Isaak [2006]).
In many cases, this lack of specificity may be legitimate, since all parties tend to agree that an analysis of knowledge ought at least to be extensionally correct in all metaphysically possible worlds; as we shall see, many theories have been defended and, especially, refuted, on those terms.
Another line of research in intuitionistic logic concerns Brouwer's very controversial "creating subject counterexamples" to principles of classical analysis (such as Markov's Principle) which could not be refuted on the basis of the theory FIM of Kleene and Vesley [1965].
Amnesty International has said Syrians are being shot at trying to enter Turkey while others are being deported to Syria against their will, a claim Davutoglu refuted on Saturday.
Romney's claim was widely refuted on Wednesday by women who had worked with him in 2002 to recruit female candidates.
While there are admittedly deeper and more complex considerations also contributing to this persistent dilemma, these general observations cannot be refuted on their merits, and their existence does not help to remedy the problem.
