confutation

Roget category 479

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.4. Reasoning processes
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#479. Confutation

noun

confutation, refutation — answer, complete answer — disproof, conviction, redargution^†, invalidation — exposure, exposition — clincher — retort — reductio ad absurdum — knock down argument, tu quoque argument [Lat.] — sockdolager [U.S.], correction etc. 572.1; dissuasion etc. 616.

verb

confute, refute, disprove — parry, negative, controvert, rebut, confound, disconfirm, redargue^†, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat — demolish, break etc. (destroy) 162 — overthrow, overturn scatter to the winds, explode, invalidate — silence — put to silence, reduce to silence — clinch an argument, clinch a question — give one a setdown^†, stop the mouth, shut up — have, have on the hip.
not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet.
be confuted &c. — fail — expose one's weak point, show one's weak point.
counter evidence etc. 468.

adjective

confuting, confuted, etc. v. — capable of refutation — refutable, confutable^†, defeasible.
contravene (counter evidence) 468.
condemned on one's own showing, condemned out of one's own mouth.

phrase

the argument falls to the ground, cadit quaestio [Lat.], it does not hold water, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo" [Terence]; his argument was demolished by new evidence.

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