Sentence examples for refuted to from inspiring English sources

Further, the increasingly rapid turnover of scientific theories suggested that, far from being established as certain, they are ever vulnerable to refutation, and typically are eventually refuted, to be replaced by some new theory.

Perhaps what had snuffed out the flame of Mort Feather's wild and minor genius was not the fact that Conn had sold out their partnership, and their possible legal claim to a considerable fortune, but that, with a stroke of his pen, he had wiped out the history of a blessing, refuted — to make a balloon payment — the lone, certifiable miracle of Morty Feather's life: his friendship with Artie Conn.

Has Socrates refuted to his own satisfaction the position he takes in the Protagoras?

Galbraith's arguments were refuted to the satisfaction of most historians by Dorothy Whitelock in Genuine Asser, in 1967.

Green is described by the warrant as someone who does not believe in modern medicine a claim she refuted to the Sheriff's Office.

In other words, if while evaluating a patient, the physician had several points that initially "didn't seem right" (according to a cardiac surgeon), but that were later refuted to confirm the hypothesis, the hypothesis was weakened and its acceptance was delayed.

To rebut is to contest or deny something; to refute is to prove that it's wrong.

Read them not to refute, but to understand.

The effort to refute cues lead to a reduction in physician's confidence and a rise in uncertainty levels.

At most, therefore, Millum refutes appeals to reciprocity in support of social obligations to participants.

Similarly, allowing "refute" to mean "deny" obscures the distinction between proving and asserting that a claim is false.