| 词汇 | refutation |
| 释义 | refutation noun[ C or U ] formaluk /ˌref.juˈteɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌref.jəˈteɪ.ʃən/ the act of saying or proving that a person, statement, opinion, etc. is wrong or false: （对他人、言论、观点的）驳斥，批驳 She published a refutation in the newspapers two days later.两天后，她在报纸上发表了反驳的文章。 Here is a simple refutation of that argument.下面是对这一论点的简洁的驳斥。 See refute He gave a detailed refutation of the claims. There has been no convincing refutation of the theory. scientific refutations of global warming Denying & contradicting abnegate abnegation breath burst someone's bubbleidiom contradictorily counter-argue debunk deny disabuse disagree dispute I'm a Dutchmanidiom make (a) nonsense of somethingidiom myth-buster myth-busting non-acceptance non-recognition recant refute speak for yourselfidiom Examples of refutationrefutation But the argument from selective refutation can be misleading when it causes us to fail to notice that the surviving hypothesis has its own defects. The above discussion does not constitute a refutation of the empirical argument or sceptical theism, let alone of both. The case we have before us stands as a vivid refutation of their claim that scientific standards of theory evaluation are immutable. It will provide useful and handy refutations of the oversimplified accounts that have often been peddled. This intuition is exploited by top-down techniques which only consider atoms necessary to answer the current query and outperform model generators used for refutation. The foundation of this merciless refutation is adherence to prophecy, as opposed to the attitude of the philosophers. The value of a refutation or a demonstration depends (in addition to its correctness and persuasive power) on its relevance to the subject matter. This criticism is distinct from radical thought and has a broader objective than being written merely as a refutation. The former refutation is fairly easy, but the latter is very hard. His emphasis on the "indifference" of conditioned stimuli exposed his theory to refutation of a different, but no less serious, sort. Refutation is unnecessary; the premise collapses under the weight of its excessively numerous and various adherents. The case we have before us stands as a vivid refutation of their claims that scientific standards of theory evaluation are immutable. To determine the fuzzy compatibility of two sets, a fuzzy resolution refutation system is utilized. But as we have noted, if the causal arguments offer themselves as empirical claims then they must be open in principle to empirical refutation. This may lead to the refutation of qualitative behaviors inconsistent with the numerical information, and hence to a reduced behavior tree. See all examples of refutation These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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