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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  • Any falsehood or inaccuracy (real or alleged) enunciated by President Donald Trump is almost invariably immediately met with refutation, rebuke, even ridicule by his media critics and political opponents.
    Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2025
  • But seen in that light, the updates look less like a refutation of the original than an embrace of its spirit, executed with enough freshness to stand on its own and enough charm to inspire a new generation to fall in like (if not necessarily in love) all over again.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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“Confutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confutation. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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