This argument appears to its framer irrefutable and a retort to which there can be no rejoinder.
If a man taxes me with having squandered fifty dollars on a repast is it an irrefutable retort to tell him that he has spent fifty cents?
In Chapters VI and VII we have given irrefutable proof that family life and the sentiments of sympathy between husband and wife, parents and children, constitute the phylogenetic basis of the sexual relations of humanity.
Nor did Kant, owing to the irrefutable reasoning of his predecessors, hesitate to consider the Will as fast bound in the chains of Necessity, the matter admitting, as he thought, of no further dispute or doubt.
After dietetics and hygiene have done their work, and struck it down by irrefutable reasoning, if Ethics desires to take up the matter, she finds little left for her to do.
Even to-day, with irrefutable demonstrations of the truth, there are some people who either cannot, or will not, accept it.
As for me, I confess that I cannot agree with those who maintain that a truth can admit of irrefutable objections: for is an objection anything but an argument whose conclusion contradicts our thesis?
And is not an irrefutable argument a demonstration?
It is therefore ad hominem only, or rather ad homines, that is, in relation to the existing state of the human race, that he deems these objections irrefutable and the subject unexplainable.
Bayle brought up recently, to wit, whether a truth, and especially a truth of faith, can prove to be subject to irrefutable objections.
Dictionary that such and such arguments are irrefutable I do not wish it to be taken that they are so in actuality.
Clerc) of the assertion made that he who acknowledges that a doctrine is exposed toirrefutable objections acknowledges also by a necessary consequence the falsity of this doctrine.
But many readers, convinced of the irrefutable nature of his objections and believing them to be at least as strong as the proofs for the truth of religion, would draw dangerous conclusions.
If we've ever needed irrefutable evidence, we've just had it rammed down our throats.
Thus the philosophic mind of Herschel saw in the existence of cometary tails, the irrefutable evidence of the existence of a repulsive force, not of a hypothetical character, but as real as the existence of gravity itself.
So that we have here, as Herschel stated, an irrefutable evidence of the existence of the repulsive power whose existence we have demonstrated.
Now, if foreknowledge and omnipotence are conceded, it naturally follows as an irrefutable consequence that we have not been made by ourselves, nor that we live or do anything by ourselves, but through His omnipotence.
One was to prove the identity beyond question; the other was to show, by irrefutable evidence, that the disguised man committed the murder.
The Constitutional Government, according to theirrefutable text of the Religion of God, is the cause of the glory and prosperity of the nation and the civilization and freedom of the people.
For according to the irrefutable texts, He has taken from us a firm covenant that we may live and act in accord with the divine exhortations, commands and lordly teachings.
And one must take the existence of the gross superstition and credulity which is here disclosed to beirrefutable testimony that, as a pastor and teacher, Mr. John Ross was a signal failure at Lumphanan.
And the chronicler supplies this irrefutable proof: A knight of his acquaintance paid a visit to the wizard, and endeavoured to turn him from his evil practices.
The rudimentary little tail of man is an irrefutable proof of the fact that he is descended from tailed ancestors.
The whole series thus constitutes anirrefutable proof of the great law of progressive development.
In this intimate connection of ontogeny and phylogeny, I see one of the most important and irrefutableproofs of the Theory of Descent.
Thou contendest, ‘How can we recognize Him when we have heard naught but words which fall short of irrefutable proofs?
I have been made the Bearer of irrefutable proofs from the presence of Him Who is the long-expected Remnant of God.
Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, and John Stuart Mill have recorded such irrefutable criticisms of the Kantian doctrine of the absolute disinterestedness of moral action, that it is unnecessary to add to their arguments.
All these are convinced individualists who adduce irrefutable reasons for their views.
No one can without unreason urge me to believe, on any but the most irrefutable arguments, that a man, finite in every other respect, is infinite in moral perfection.
That, so far as I have been present to observe, you have been a silently eloquent and irrefutable argument for the affirmative?
Still," he went on as if making an effort over himself to meet questions which he wished relegated into doubt, "I know a man who sometimes confounds all the arguments of my intelligence by irrefutable facts.
You have achieved your end; the two rulers will welcome your advocate: and you flatter yourself that the royal conversion is due to your irrefutable logic and irresistible arguments.
But Japan has given proof irrefutable that enormous development is possible without any stability at all.
It is perhaps the most tragic wrong in that century's history that these words were written to justify an effort of which they supply an irrefutable condemnation.
That is irrefutable evidence of the position he had attained.
Their very deeds are a sufficient testimony, and an irrefutable proof unto all the peoples of the earth, were men to ponder in their hearts the mysteries of divine Revelation.
It revealed an irrefutable evidence, and brought the light of an unfailing guidance.
