Sentence examples for refuted the thesis from inspiring English sources

His translation served as the basis for Joseph Ritter von Xylander's studies of the Albanian language, which definitively refuted the thesis that the language had a Tatar origin.

However, given their aggressive resistance to the notion of suboptimality or nonfunction of biological structures,7 it appears that many modern design proponents disagree with Paley's subsequent assertions that neither imperfections nor ambiguous or even nonexistent functions refute the thesis of design for the origin of complex, (mostly) functional objects or organs.

The three men issued a joint statement refuting the central thesis of the article, but, as with Wolff's book, many readers saw their private assumptions, if not most fervent hopes, confirmed.

In recent years experiments designed to refute the Bohr Pauli thesis and measure electron spin have been carried out.

First, refuting the convergence thesis require more than simply demonstrating strong policy differences between countries – in the way e.g. Koopmans et al. (2012) arguably do.

But Epicureans lack a convincing argument against the possibility that the dying process and some of its effects overlap in time; hence they cannot refute the harm thesis.

Since this allowed, by successively applying (Tonk-I) and then (Tonk-E), any ψ to be derived from any φ, Prior took this to show that no coherent meaning had been conferred on Tonk by the proposed rules, and to refute the general thesis that the meaning of a connective can be fixed by means of rules governing it.

If my arm's waving is caused by my desire and not by my brain state, it has a special cause and not a physical cause, and this will refute the closure thesis that every physical effect has some fully physical cause.

However, the specific motives generally cited in the case were Lipmann's "jealousy" and the fact that Duhem's thesis refuted the principle of maximum work: that chemical changes tend spontaneously to produce maximum heat.

By appeal to such cases Butler and Hume arguably refuted the strong motivational hedonist thesis that one's every desire has one's own pleasure and that alone as its object.

Mr. Loja refuted the dentist's statements.