All 9 Uses of
refute
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- He was able to get away with this because logical refutation required more talent than any of the students had.
Part 3 *refutation = evidence or argument that something is false
- In subsequent days he continually invited their refutations, but none came.†
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- Phaedrus, however, because of his training in logic, was aware that every dilemma affords not two but three classic refutations, and he also knew of a few that weren't so classic, so he smiled back.†
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- He could take the left horn and refute the idea that objectivity implied scientific detectability.†
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- Or, he could take the right horn, and refute the idea that subjectivity implies "anything you like."†
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- In addition to these three classical logical refutations there are some illogical, "rhetorical" ones.†
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- He turned his attention to the other horn of the dilemma, which showed more promise of refutation.†
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- This refutation of scientific materialism, however, seemed to put him in the camp of philosophic idealism…Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Bradley, Bosanquet…good company all, logical to the last comma, but so difficult to justify in "common sense" language they seemed a burden to him in his defense of Quality rather than an aid.†
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- His geniality was confirmed by none and sharply refuted by two, one the head of a major University department who described him as a "holy terror" and another who held a graduate degree in philosophy from the University of Chicago who said the chairman was well known for graduating only carbon copies of himself.†
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Definition:
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(refute) to disprove or argue against