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Nonetheless, like modesty, humility is something that, if professed, is self-refuting.

The other possible attitudes of the will are self-refuting.

In a related criticism, Okin argues that classical-liberal or libertarian views are self-refuting.

So modal fictionalism, at least of the variety described, is self-refuting.

Much ado has been made about whether dreaming arguments are self-refuting.

In the history of the debate over positivism, the most radical charge was that positivism is self-refuting.

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.

1108F) that Democritus argued against Protagorean subjectivism (see below), complemented by Sextus, who reports (Against the Mathematicians VII.389 90) that Democritus' arguments included the argument that Protagoras' subjectivism is self-refuting.

Explicitly adopting one of Peirce's concepts, Royce argues that to define truth using any conception of "the long run" — short of the ideal end of inquiry — is self-refuting.

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Another view is that eliminativism assumes the existence of the beliefs and other entities it seeks to "eliminate" and is thus self-refuting.

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