Sentence examples for refute the proposition from inspiring English sources

This doesn't refute the proposition that unemployment insurance is causing unemployment, because that proposition never made sense in the first place.

Conservative supporters might either have the courage of their convictions or, if truly ashamed, revise them, but they should at least refute the proposition that defending your own interests is only acceptable if you're broke.

Now, you may be expecting us at this point (otherwise known as the Debunking Paragraph, in which we refute the proposition of the introduction – in this case that the band need to be amazing and great to match the ambition suggested by their name) to announce that Spector don't live up to their own self-hype.

Similarly, in reverse, rather than refer to an economic view that has unfortunately retained considerable influence, possibly because it has a political appeal to some parties, despite extensive empirical evidence that appears to refute the proposition why not just refer to it as a "zombie idea"?

If a genuine mathematical proposition is undecided, the Law of the Excluded Middle holds in the sense that we know that we will prove or refute the proposition by applying an applicable decision procedure (PG 379, 387).

Evidence can be found to both support and refute the proposition that fixed and mobile telephones is, or could be, an effective healthcare intervention in developing countries.

Subsequent work sought to systematically confirm or refute the propositions inherent in this framework by narratively synthesising the empirical evidence.

a verbal, social, and rational activity aimed at convincing a reasonable critic of the acceptability of a standpoint by putting forward a constellation of propositions justifying or refuting the proposition expressed in the standpoint.

Van Eemeren and Grootendorst (2004: 1) define argumentation as: a verbal, social, and rational activity aimed at convincing a reasonable critic of the acceptability of a standpoint by putting forward a constellation of propositions justifying or refuting the proposition expressed in the standpoint.

Our review refutes the proposition that laughter can only be beneficial.

We are therefore interested in examining the evidence that supports or refutes the proposition that CDCs can be altered by interventions aimed at changing health worker practices.