as in refutation
something (as an argument) that serves to disprove he crafted an elegant confutation to the argument that animals do not feel pain

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Recent Examples of confutation 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. M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2022
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  • The Declaration is sometimes championed by right-libertarians and left-liberals alike as a paean to individualism and a refutation of communitarianism of any kind.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 July 2025
  • Every American Girl has the same problems to overcome, and that’s a clear refutation of a progressivist view of history.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 9 July 2024

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“Confutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confutation. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.

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