That does indeed put them in opposition to political orthodoxy on the right wing but not on the left, just as surely as it refutes the view that education about sex (or drugs or whatever) causes or encourages young people to have sex (or take drugs or whatever).
This observation refutes the view that the right hemispheric lateralization for faces arises only after a few years of age, following and being driven by the left hemispheric lateralization for words that emerges during reading acquisition (Dundas et al., 2013, 2014).
Hardin was trying to refute the view that an unregulated free market invariably produces beneficial outcomes.
Menger also used it to refute the view, popularized by David Ricardo and Karl Marx, that the value of goods derives from the value of labour used to produce them.
They said this argument refuted the view of Justice Antonin Scalia that Mr. Bush and the country might be harmed by allowing the counting of "questionable" ballots.
Mr. Walsh wrote that the verdict refuted the view that the illegal operation had been confined to the White House and showed that it in fact extended to various agencies, like the Defense and State Departments, as well as the C.I.A.
Canada's experience also seems to refute the view, forcefully pushed by Paul Volcker, the formidable former Fed chairman, that the roots of our crisis lay in the scale and scope of our financial institutions — in the existence of banks that were "too big to fail".
An alternative to the perfect capital market assumption is the perspective advanced in the work of Fazzari et al. (1988), who refute the view that internal and external finance are perfect substitutes in investment decisions.
Elaborating on the distinction between soul and accident, he maintains that the soul is a substance (in the sense of form), refuting the view of the "physicians" that it is a mixture, thereby dismissing all other theories according to which the soul is an accident.
On this basis Dante proceeds to refute the view that nobility consists in wealth and ancestry, a view which he here attributes to Frederick II, "the last emperor of the Romans," and for which he will elsewhere cite Aristotle's Politics [Mon. 2.3.4; Pol. 4.8, 1294a].
This kind of positive connection is what Williamson has in mind when addressing the role of intuitions in philosophical thought experiments like the famous Gettier cases, which overnight found acceptance by the philosophical community in their aim to refute the view that knowledge is justified true belief.
