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Noun refutation has 3 senses
- refutation, defense, defence - the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he said the other man started it"
--1 is a kind of answer
--1 has particulars: confutation; rebuttal
- disproof, falsification, refutation - any evidence that helps to establish the falsity of something
--2 is a kind of evidence, grounds
--2 has particulars: reductio ad absurdum, reductio; confutation; counterexample
- falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation - the act of determining that something is false
--3 is a kind of determination, finding
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