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.
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M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2022
M. D. Aeschliman, National Review, 20 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confutation
refutation
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Karl Popper said that science is about conjecture and refutation.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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The very mechanisms enabling AI to inspire collective action also equip it to reinforce entrenched refutation, deepen ideological divides and amplify narratives dismissing climate change as a mere fabrication.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Confutation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confutation. Accessed 4 Dec. 2025.
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