| The subsequent unanticipated baby boom, of course, was a salutary refutation of the commission's demographic determinism. |
| Tautologies are statements true by definition and so are quite incapable of empirical refutation or prediction. |
| The author went on to criticize his refutation of productivity-related theories. |
| He recommended that special attention be given to the refutation of these fallacies. |
| The story is Kipling's brilliant refutation of the widely accepted saw that time heals all wounds. |
| But perhaps the best refutation of the idea that philosophy and morality are unconnected came, as we might have expected, from Samuel Johnson. |
