Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being irrefutable.
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Examples
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If it has a rational basis that direct relationship should be weaker because of the idea's eventual logical irrefutability.
A Quote that Should Have Been in My Book, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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The desire to ensure irrefutability, perhaps the legacy of reflection on the Socratic elenchus, drives him to the conclusion that one really has recollected the Form only when one has become a metaphysician.
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It seems to be the general opinion that absolute certainty is not something that we humans can hope for; that the best we can attain is a highly established near irrefutability.
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Nothing like hysterical rhetoric to give your argument that final torque of irrefutability.
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Nothing like hysterical rhetoric to give your argument that final torque of irrefutability.
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By having the “old school” so dogmatic and resistant to change, it forces the new turks to provide a strong argument, to the point of irrefutability.
Mann on Splices: the Case of Crowley and Lowery « Climate Audit
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That may be correct: this ostensibly simple, naked and mundanely unassuming account of a young boy's life and sufferings in Auschwitz, Zeitz and Buchenwald possesses a weightiness and irrefutability that puts it not only at the core of one man's literary production but also of contemporary European prose.
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She stared at us indignantly, her arms folded across her breasts, as though the irrefutability of her logic should have been obvious to anyone.
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She stared at us indignantly, her arms folded across her breasts, as though the irrefutability of her logic should have been obvious to anyone.
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He paused too, presumably long enough for Parlabane to realise that the sheer irrefutability of Scowl's arguinent had rendered him speechiess, upon which Scowl would resume.
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