Langen, who is in the main remarkably sane, refutesthese conclusions neatly.
These Augustine, following Paul, refutes pith great emphasis, whose judgment we have recounted above in the article Of Justification.
In which the author first refutes some idle opinions concerning spirits, and then the passengers relate their several deaths.
The whole history of France for nearly a century, without any reference to our own experience, refutes the absurd theory of the philosophers, or sophists, rather.
The assertion of the relativity of all knowledge, therefore, contradicts and refutes itself.
So far from being science, it is not even an admissible hypothesis; because it contradicts and refutes itself.
The book on the Trinity cannot be St. Cyril's; for it refutes the Monothelite heresy, not known before the year 620.
But Montfaucon refutes this slander, trumped up by his enemies.
First Copreus puts his case, then Iolaus refutes him.
Hecuba refutes him, pointing out that it was the lust for her son's gold which caused his death.
Here Wrede's theory that He was a teacher again refutes itself.
But in general it may be said that Seydel actually refutes the hypothesis which he is defending.
The transference of the Epistles to the second century is effected in so arbitrary a fashion that itrefutes itself.
You must see, sir, that the passage which you quote refutes your notion about this contradiction.
To be thankful to God, and to rejoice in his goodness, and at the same time feel no desire to continue in the enjoyment of such favour is to me a complete solecism, which sufficiently refutes itself.
His manner of proceeding with Hobbes shows his dilemma: he refutes the doctrine of the "Leviathan," while he confesses that Hobbes is right in the main.
That with which this morality wishes to prove itself, refutes it out of its criterion of what is moral!
The wildly beautiful irrationality of poetry refutes you, ye utilitarians!
Acts 5:29) We have seen how Paul refutes the argument of the false apostles concerning the authority of the apostles.
With these words Paul refutes another argument of the false apostles.
Astronomy not only exposes the folly of past cosmogonies, but demonstrates the impossibility of framing any true theory of creation, and thus refutes all future cosmogonies.
He easily refutes the charges of Manetho that the Jews were expelled from Egypt as lepers.
In the first place, he refutes the opinion of the voluptuous, who make happiness to consist in corporal pleasures.
In the last place, he refutes the system of the avaricious, who constitute riches the supreme good.
The argument from the design and purpose that is clearly visible in the majority of plants and animals further refutes such mechanical explanation as is attempted by the philosophers.
Saadia also discusses this view as the ninth of the twelve theories of creation treated by him, and refutes it more elaborately than Bahya, whose one argument is the last of Saadia's eight.
Gersonides cites other objections which he answers, and then he takes up one by one the Aristotelian arguments in favor of eternity and refutes them in detail.
And he either accepts them, provisionally or absolutely, if he regards them as proven, as true and useful; or he refutes and rejects them if untenable.
In the sequel Al Mukammas refutes the views of the dualists, of the Christians and those who maintain that God has form.
The opinion named above that an act is made good or bad by being commanded or prohibited, he refutes as follows: Such a view removes the very foundation of good and bad.
The exaggeration is so gross that it refutes itself.
The formerrefutes many of San AgustÃn's statements, sometimes very sharply; the latter often supports them, but sometimes he finds them in contradiction to what he himself has observed.
The incident of his marriage, and not this incident alone, refutes this conception of his character; his nature was as lyrical and mobile as a poet's should be.
On the other hand, Aristotle refutes the idea that movement is in vacuum because compression is possible.
Plato thus first refutes what is sensuous, and then even the Ideas themselves.
In this Book Augustine refutes the second letter which Petilianus wrote to him after having seen the first of Augustine's earlier Books.
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