refutation

refute | American Dictionary

refute
verb[ T ]
us/rɪˈfjut/
to prove a statement, opinion, or belief to be wrong or false:
Are you refuting the evidence?

Examples of refute

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Further studies are thus required to confirm or refute this association.
When mistakes are discovered in proofs, the theorems themselves are usually not refuted.
The book has the standard classical kalam objective of proving - the religious creed of the author and refuting the views of opponents.
The authors provide an analysis that refutes the traditionally held claim that defective vowels are epenthetic and that they repair ill-formed clusters.
He finds a counter-intuitive result that refutes non-game theoretical wisdom that parties focus their campaign resources on marginal constituencies.
However, the results from cross-national analysis are useful for validating or refuting some of the controversial theoretical issues discussed in the literature.
However, the results from cross-national analysis are useful for validating or refuting some of the controversial theoretical and generic issues discussed in the literature.
This finding, however, should not be taken to refute the social capital thesis that social networks are a source of generalized trust.
Complementarity is also refuted when we test access to care for the elderly with a better definition of medical need : community deaths.
The possibility of parasite-induced host mortality occurring is therefore not refuted.
This view is difficult to refute,33 though it would appear to rely on a priori belief, albeit founded on rational clues.
Her conclusions would be greatly strengthened by a clearer demonstration of this point; otherwise, her opening argument refuting the "clash of civilizations" thesis is diminished.
Re-examination of the type material refutes this inter pretation; the impressions are neither demonstrably paired, nor is there a strong vertical component to the impressions.
Initial investigations do not refute the possibility that the foundlings were predominately illegitimate.
By the same token, the fact that human decision makers deviate from rationality in certain situations does not refute the fundamental assumption of instrumental rationality.
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