And when people don't need to refute counterarguments, there's no point in listening to them.
That's a wonderful claim. "You can refute Hegel but not the Saint or the Song of Experience."
South Africa was forced to refute rumours it had sent planes to fly the 69-year-old to an undisclosed location.
We can easily refute his argument.
It takes only one sentence to promote a fallacy but to refute one requires much more than that.
The abstract is not life and everywhere draws out its contradictions. You can refute Hegel but not the Saint or the Song of Experience.
Yet this study did not necessarily refute Dollo's law.
Although the Conservatives have never spelt this out, they had until Mr Cameron's latest remarks done nothing to refute the notion that reductions could be sharp.
This is obvious in the case of Mr Powell: Mr Obama is making liberal use of his endorsement to refute the latest Republican criticism that he is a "socialist".
The new paper USES more advanced instruments to refute the critics' theory, arguing that ancient life remains the most plausible explanation.
Future housing data will confirm or refute whether the housing market's pain is starting to fade.
I retorted, showing a decided purple witness to refute her.
So here the being monism is used to refute value dualism, understanding the latter as by definition positing being dualism.
Facts are hard to refute so gather some pertinent data before the argument starts. Surveys, statistics, quotes from relevant people and results are useful arguments to deploy in support of your case.
But the latest research is hard to refute: estimates by conservationists, and some officials, put the population at 1, 200-1, 500.
