How To Use confute In A Sentence
- For to refute is to contradict one and the same attribute-not merely the name, but the reality-and a name that is not merely synonymous but the same name-and to confute it from the propositions granted, necessarily, without including in the reckoning the original point to be proved, in the same respect and relation and manner and time in which it was asserted. On Sophistical Refutations
- So now is the moment for the President-elect to confute his critics, and demonstrate that he has the toughness needed to deal with the Islamofascist threat, no matter who its agents may be. Mark Kleiman: Torture: A modest proposal
- A wager of twenty guineas will at any time overthrow and confute all the logic of the most able syllogist, who has not got a shilling in his pocket.” The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
- Oracle doctrine of the fathers, -- there is a still more flagrant argument against the fathers, which it is perfectly confounding to find both them and their confuter overlooking. Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 1
- The lawyer confuted the testimony of the witness by showing actual photographs of the accident.
- Now everybody makes a wrong call from time to time - if only because even right calls can be confuted by poor timing.
- Vv'hich is agreeable to the Opinion of all the Bifcoverers of that Tiiue, as to the Eaftern Tide from the Proportion that the great Spaces or Seas which were to receive it bore to the Inlets by which it came in, that the Force of fuch Tide muft be confuted in fuch Seas, and there - fore expected to meet with a Tide from Weltward, v/liich counterchecked the Eaftern Tide. The great probability of a North West Passage: deduced from observations on the letter of Admiral de Fonte, who sailed from the Callao of Lima on the discovery of a communication between the South Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. Proving the authenticity of th
- Scriptures; but these men deserve to be pitied, rather than confuted. Anatomy of Melancholy
- [6645] Thus they mutter and object (see the rest of their arguments in Marcennus in Genesin, and in Campanella, amply confuted), with many such vain cavils, well known, not worthy the recapitulation or answering: whatsoever they pretend, they are interim of little or no religion. Anatomy of Melancholy
- The apostles also confuted the heathen philosophers and Jews, a people than whom none more obstinate, but rather by their good lives and miracles than syllogisms: and yet there was scarce one among them that was capable of understanding the least "quodlibet" of the Scotists. The Praise of Folly