confutation
noun
con·fu·ta·tion
ˌkän-fyu̇-ˈtā-shən 
-fyü-
1
: the act or process of confuting : refutation
2
: something (such as an argument or statement) that confutes
Examples of confutation in a Sentence
he crafted an elegant confutation to the argument that animals do not feel pain
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Nominalism and positivism have deluged the world with vast quantities of little-read scholarship whose underlying rationale is often the confutation of the very possibility of the larger-scale intelligibility of the world.
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M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2022
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M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2022
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“Confutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/confutation. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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