How To Use Confutation In A Sentence
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Seiffmilts, [2] in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none!
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
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Thus he deploys a vivid confutation of justification by works, even by the fervent ‘Sacrifice’ he has described in line 5.
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Yet, in the confutation to the President's address, Governor Bobby Jindal, of Louisiana presented the traditional divisive wisdom.
Republicans Twitter. Jindal Rebuttal; A Tweet
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But his confutation was the factual confutation of experience.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
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But his work ‘goes well beyond his confutation of heresy.’
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And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding for the most part one question as fast as it solveth another; even as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge; which was transformed into a comely virgin for the upper parts; but then
The Advancement of Learning
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For I could not be true and constant to the argument I handle if I were not willing to go beyond others; but yet not more willing than to have others go beyond me again: which may the better appear by this, that I have propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not seeking to preoccupate the liberty of men’s judgments by confutations.
The Advancement of Learning
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For I could not be true and constant to the argument I handle if I were not willing to go beyond others; but yet not more willing than to have others go beyond me again: which may the better appear by this, that I have propounded my opinions naked and unarmed, not seeking to preoccupate the liberty of men's judgments by confutations.
The Advancement of Learning
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And the refutation of these has been such as alone it could be: that is to say, by signs and the evidence of causes, since no other kind of confutation was open to me, differing as I do from the others both on first principles and on rules of demonstration.
The New Organon
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In his Confutation, he erred in citing two pseudonymous patristic texts, supposedly from St. Cyprian and St. Augustine.
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I like confutation much better, obscure though it may be in the average Canadian vernacular.
Rebuttal: The Tamil Protesters Are Not My People « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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But, this notion of Matter seems too extravagant to deserve a confutation.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley
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And such is their method, that rests not so much upon evidence of truth proved by arguments, authorities, similitudes, examples, as upon particular confutations and solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding for the most part one question as fast as it solveth another; even as in the former resemblance, when you carry the light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable and fiction of Scylla seemeth to be a lively image of this kind of philosophy or knowledge; which was transformed into
The Advancement of Learning
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We do, then, plainly supererogate as to the cause in hand, by the confutation of the answers which Mr Goodwin farther attempts to remove, and his endeavour therein; which yet shall not be declined.
The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
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When the child died a few days after, the prophet was abashed, and quite unable to account for this summary confutation.
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Some hold the Koranic passage to have been revealed in confutation of the Jews, who pretended that if a man lay with his wife backwards, he would beget a cleverer child.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He quotes without confutation the assertion that ‘the globe may be surveyed and history may be reviewed in vain for any evidence of a considerable country in which want can be fairly attributed to an increasing population.’
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As I am still in possession of that imperfect organ, I will proceed to use it to the confutation of some of his other fallacies.
Chesterton's Response to Shaw (Part Two)
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Dar Hyal, alone, with his blastic theory of art, can specially apply it to music to the confutation of all the first words and the last.
CHAPTER XIV
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Seiffmilts, in his great work concerning the divine order and regularity in the destiny of the human race, has a chapter entitled a confutation of this idea; I read it with great eagerness, and found therein that this idea militated against the glory and goodness of God, and must therefore be false, -- but further confutation found I none!
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
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But why then did not those profound rabbies amongst the Jews, and the Stoicks and Epicureans (those oracles of reason) amongst the philosophers, baffle and refel these babblers, and so dashing their absurd doctrine in its first rise, prevent its spreading, by a mature and thorough confutation?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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Have we not frequent apologies of our divines for the confutation of such false, malicious, and putid criminations?
The Sermons of John Owen