The refutations brought by the Sophists against this doctrine, and the puzzles which they start, e.
It is such apparent probabilia as these, which make up the premisses of eristic or sophistic discourse, and upon which the sophistical or fallacious refutations turn.
The Sâ.mkhya sûtras contain refutations of other doctrines and also a number of parables.
The second book deals with the refutationsof objections against the means of right knowledge (pramâna).
All the Nyâya and Vedânta literature of this period is full of refutations and criticisms of these doctrines.
Let us now consider, in the order of their presentation, the various refutations of idealism which Kant has given in his Critical writings.
The striking contradiction between Kant's various refutations of idealism has led some of Kant's most competent critics to give a different interpretation of the argument of the second edition from that given above.
Europe was flooded with these theological refutations of the Copernican system.
Wide generalizations in science always meet with these summary refutations in their early days; but they outlive them, and the refutations then sound oddly antiquated and scholastic.
Indeed, a good part of every geological treatise, and of the time of every association of geologists, is taken up with refutations of the errors of their predecessors.
This piece of historical jugglery ran speedily through thirty editions, while from all parts of Germany came refutationsand counter-refutations by scores, all tending to increase its notoriety.
The First Objections being against the Existence of Spirits, and the Refutations thereof.
His book was officially condemned and forbidden, and a host of refutations (?
Two other refutations emanating from the Academy of Berlin were those of Castillon and Holland.
It is impossible in a study of this length to deal fully with the attacks and refutations that were published immediately.
The leading refutations directed explicitly against the Système de la Nature are: 1.
Where were the refutations which he had made ready in case of a barely possible need?
Refutations sprang to his lips, and died there, though he had no notion of uttering them.
In her anxious haste she paused not to perceive that the attempted refutations of Christianity contained objections more gross and incomprehensible than the doctrine assailed.
The later members of the school no longer saw through the motives of their predecessors and imagined their principles and arguments were bona fide refutations of philosophical opinions.
When the Mohammedans came upon the scene and translated the works of the philosophers, they included in their work of translation the refutations composed by the Christians.
Darwin's arguments we might resist or adjourn; but some of the refutations of it give us more concern than the book itself did.
Unfortunately it is no more than a mere fragment, the verses of which are thoughtfully separated from each other by strictures, protests, and refutations of the baldest and most orthodox kind.
He refuted them, and had his refutations recopied and posted on the walls of the basilicas.
And from what I have understood, I am persuaded the chief desideratum is to furnish them with the refutations of the attacks of the late Councillors.
Ought there not to be more effective means used than have yet been employed to circulate the refutationsof the ex-Council's publications amongst their own supporters?
Refutations and proofs depend on pregnant meanings assigned to terms, meanings first rendered explicit and unambiguous by those very proofs or refutations.
On any different acceptation of those terms, these proofs and refutations fall to the ground; and it remains a question for good sense, not for logic at all, how far the terms in either case describe anything existent.
Darwins arguments we might resist or adjourn; but some of the refutations of it give us more concern than the book itself did.
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