The work in question does not impugn the opinion of any particular sect, but impugns the whole of the doctrines contained in the Old and New Testament.
The Chief Justice: No; the publication of Paine does not go to express doubts, but it impugns the Bible; it says that the entire of the Bible is a tissue of falsehood and imposition.
He impugns it here by the same argument which we also read in the Theaetetus.
Manner in which his partisan Zeno defended him 58 Sokrates here impugns the doctrine of Zeno.
Sokrates, depicted here as a young man, impugns this doctrine of Zeno: and maintains that the two worlds, though naturally disjoined, were not incommunicable.
But Plato, when he impugns it, leaves out the final qualification; falling unconsciously into the fallacy of passing (as logicians say) a dicto secundum quid ad dictum simpliciter.
Here Plato impugns the doctrine of those who (like Sokrates in his own Theaetetus) held that the sensible world alone was relative, but that the intelligible world or Forms were absolute.
Sokrates impugns the formula of relativity, as if it proclaimed every one to believe himself more competent to predict the future than any other person.
Side-note: Plato, when he impugns the doctrine of Protagoras, states that doctrine without the qualification properly belonging to it.
Where future consequences are involved special knowledge is required 136 Plato, when he impugns the doctrine of Protagoras, states that doctrine without the qualification properly belonging to it.
He impugns it as if it excluded philosophy and argumentative scrutiny: whereas, on the contrary, it is the only basis upon which philosophy or "reasoned truth" can stand.
Aristokles impugns it vehemently, and tries to fasten upon it many absurd consequences--in my judgment without foundation.
Gerald's editor impugns the correctness of these statements, on the grounds that the assembly was not clerical merely and that the bishop did not speak on behalf of the whole church.
Nor can I close without reminding the reader that if my researches have compelled me to differ from an authority so supreme as Dr Stubbs, this in no way impugns the soundness of his judgment on the data hitherto known.
But this in no way impugns the truth of his view that 'the Norman tendencies of Edward' paved the way for the coming of William.
Calvinism impugns the moral character of the Deity II.
We see thus that the doctrine which the Platonic Sokrates impugns in the Republic, is countenanced elsewhere by Sokratic authority.
That which we choose on both grounds, both as immediately attractive and as ultimately beneficial), it belongs to the last variety: whereas the opponents whom he impugns referred it to the second.
Side-note: Plato has not made good his refutation--the thesis which he impugns is true.
Aristotle notices this opinion as held by some persons (not naming Plato), but impugns it as erroneous.
But if your opponent impugns the hypothesis itself, how are you to defend it?
Lucretius as well as Plato impugns the doctrine, iii.
It impugns the justice of God by implying: (a) That God holds men responsible for the violation of a covenant which they had no part in establishing.
It impugns the justice of God: (a) By regarding him as the direct creator of a vicious nature which infallibly leads every human being into actual transgression.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impugns" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
