How To Use Confute In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The lawyer confuted the testimony of the witness by showing actual photographs of the accident.
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Now everybody makes a wrong call from time to time - if only because even right calls can be confuted by poor timing.
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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
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Scriptures; but these men deserve to be pitied, rather than confuted.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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[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
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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
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Neither an act of God nor a piece of journalism will vindicate Willingham or confute the death penalty.
Rob Fishman: Trial by Firefight
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But Israel's labor and culture worlds and overall the most democratic political faction are trying to make every effort to confute these accusations.
Amir Madani: Perspectives of Peace in the Middle East
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&c. But instar omnium, the most copious confuter of atheists is Marinus Mercennus in his
Anatomy of Melancholy
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In the nine articles that have appeared in this series, we have disproved and confuted all the allegations of disbelievers and critics regarding the origin of the Qur'an.
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The lawyer confuted the testimony of the witness by showing actual photographs of the accident.
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I say, So was Paul a Solifidian, whose epistles will confute all the formalists and self-justiciaries in the world.
The Sermons of John Owen
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Our exclusive exit poll of the Democratic primary confutes the conventional wisdom about why Gotham's voters vote as they do.
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The lawyer confuted the testimony of the witness by showing actual photographs of the accident.
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Were not the work indeed presented through you, my learned friends, I should scarce hope that it could come out scatheless and complete; for you have in general been the faithful witnesses of almost all the instances from which I have either collected the truth or confuted error.
On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals
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THE youthful confuter of Locke was despatched to Merton School, and ranked, according to his merits, as lag of the penultimate form.
Kenelm Chillingly — Complete
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For gainsaying; the word in the Greek is anteipein, importing opposition in disputation, with an endeavour to refel or confute what is alleged by another; and the design of it is redargution, called by
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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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 Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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The telescopic observations used by Galileo to confute the Aristotelians are bound up with complex assumptions having to do with optics: this penetration of observation by theory is typical.
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The whole of Pakistani history serves to confute these beliefs.
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I continued to write successful books, and in sociological controversy I saw my opponents confuted with the facts of the times that daily reared new buttresses to my intellectual position.
Chapter 31
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He confutes such notions by educating patients about the field of psychoneuroimmunology, with examples of how stress can adversely affect the endocrine, immune and nervous systems.
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It would be nice to say that the exhibition at the Royal Academy until 18 April confutes received wisdom.
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The author also gives the Hindustani word as 'kaelkur-hin', which seems to be intended for _qâil kareñ_, or in rustic form _karahiñ_, meaning 'confute'.
Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official
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The telescopic observations used by Galileo to confute the Aristotelians are bound up with complex assumptions having to do with optics: this penetration of observation by theory is typical.
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As for De Casseres -- if ever I get back to New York, equipped as I now am, I shall confute him with the same ease that he has confuted all the schools.
CHAPTER XXXVII
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As for De Casseres -- if ever I get back to New York, equipped as I now am, I shall confute him with the same ease that he has confuted all the schools.
CHAPTER XXXVII
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The lawyer confuted the testimony of the witness by showing actual photographs of the accident.
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He has argued to the contrary, but the evidence confutes him.
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Taking the argument to a highly respectable theologian, she won her point (‘'tis I that must be confuted,’ he conceded graciously).
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One well-studied case decisively confutes all the conventional arguments.
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But as philosophy was widely spread over the world, at the time when Christianity arose, the teachers of the new sect were obliged to form a system of speculative opinions; to divide, with some accuracy, their articles of faith; and to explain, comment, confute, and defend with all the subtilty of argument and science...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Nonideological Evil in the Harry Potter Series:
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Yet, while George confutes the morality of the landowner's original title, he does not regard this as good enough reason, in itself, for overriding the claim of the present incumbent.
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The candour of this speech, in which his aversion to the Delviles was openly acknowledged, and rationally justified, somewhat quieted the suspicions of Cecilia, which far more anxiously sought to be confuted than confirmed: she began, therefore, to conclude that some accident, inexplicable as unfortunate, had occasioned the partial discovery to Mr
Cecilia
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He confutes this argument saying ‘You find valuable things in places were no one else has searched.’
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I have offered evidence, none of which you have confuted.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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This was our question, this we debated, and this Mr.K. might have sent for, and have spoken to, since he will needs be a confuter.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
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Fie upon thee! man needs should have some certain test set up to try his friends, some touchstone of their hearts, to know each friend whether he be true or false; all men should have two voices, one the voice of honesty, expediency's the other, so would honesty confute its knavish opposite, and then we could not be deceived.
Hippolytus
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He confuted his opponents by facts and logic.
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I took old Howard along, and he perked up and confuted the doctors, so that it was three years before I buried him restored to the bosom of my family.
SHIN-BONES
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In the article on Collins in Birch's Dictionary, Birch notes that his “large and curious [library] was open to all men of letters, to whom he readily communicated all the lights and assistance in his power, and even furnished his antagonists with books to confute himself, and directed them how to give their arguments all the force of which they were capable” (Birch, quoted in Berman, 1975).
Anthony Collins
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In order to detect the fallacy, the proposition thus silently assumed must be supplied; but the reasoner, most likely, has never really asked himself what he was assuming; his confuter, unless permitted to extort it from him by the Socratic mode of interrogation, must himself judge what the suppressed premise ought to be in order to support the conclusion.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive
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Martin Ballius and his companions, maintained this opinion not long since in France, whose error is confuted by Beza in a just volume.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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No, I intend to confute their arguments, to show that they are mistaken.
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A second, more common way of settling the problem was to consider the market as a kind of extension of the home, however much this might confute economic and physical fact.
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A briefe commentarie of Island: wherein the errors of such as haue written concerning this Island, are detected, and the slanders, and reproches of certaine strangers, which they haue vsed ouer-boldly against the people of Island are confuted.
A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas
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The ‘fact’ that water freezes more quickly if it is first boiled is no fact at all, and some of Descartes's ‘explanations’ are easily confuted by experiment.
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Those that, to confute their incredulity, desire to see apparitions, shall, questionless, never behold any, nor have the power to be so much as witches.
Religio Medici
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Of the firft of thefe I haue ahea* dyfpoken fomewhat, when I confuted their erroar, which think that the generalnesofthe promifcs extedeth egally toal man - kinde.
The institution of christian religion
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The golfer's regard of Elin, 29, also seemed to confute the grumpy grousing he made about his marriage bed, complaining which "once we get married, the sex stops," according to sources.
Archive 2009-12-01
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In other words, the consensus has been downright confuted, over a nine-month period, by the course of events.
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While the government then gave the floor to the chief of police Manganelli which in Italian means "batons", the irony of the language, the argument of who is in favour of the project has regularly been confuted for scientific and technical reasons that highlight the weaknesses.
Lorella Di Vuono: High Speed Turin-Lyon Train Runs on the Border of Italian Democracy
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Finding that they conclusively confuted one another, and perceiving at last that the idea of the superhuman origin of Christianity did, and, as Bishop Butler says, alone can resolve all the difficulties of the subject, I was compelled to forego all the advantages of infidelity, and condescended to "depress" my conscience to the "Biblical standard"!
The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic