The word "refuting" is a correct and usable word in written English
It can be used when you want to reject or disprove someone's opinion, statement, or argument. Example Sentence: After hearing the other side's argument, she made a passionate speech refuting their claims with concrete evidence.
They answered Boothby's charges without wholly refuting them.
Cheap natural gas encouraged innovation in small-scale gas-fired technologies, refuting the natural-monopoly argument.
Unfortunately for the long-suffering residents of Beijing, officials will have a harder time refuting this week's assertion, by the cancer-research arm of the World Health Organisation, that air pollution causes lung cancer.(Photo credit: AFP/Goh Chai Hin).
In time, it would expose the long tail of non-performing assets in their portfolios .As for OPEC countries, they would benefit from refuting claims that they are running out of oil.
One chapter is devoted to refuting the belief that Jews were responsible for the imposition of the post-war communist regime on an unwilling nation.In this section Berlusconi redux?
He stood by the case presented by the intelligence services "totally", while also "totally" refuting any suggestion that he had "misled either Parliament or the people".
If it applies, then given that reasonable people disagree about the PJP, the PJP is self-refuting.
Plato's attempted refutation of Protagoras, known as peritrope or "turning around", is the first of the many attempts to show that relativism is self-refuting.
So modal fictionalism, at least of the variety described, is self-refuting.
A standard reply to relativism the claim that truths depend on a point of view is that this claim itself is either absolute (and so self-refuting) or relative (and therefore of no general import).
Newton concluded that the doctrine is in fact self-refuting and that, where Descartes needed to, he had surreptitiously helped himself to a notion of space independent of body, particularly in order to assign the desired degree of centrifugal conatus to the planets and their satellites as they are swept about by celestial vortices of "subtle" matter.
