0 to argue that a statement or claim is not true:
She has rebutted charges that she has been involved in any financial malpractice.
2 to say firmly and directly, or prove, that something is not true:
The Government is attempting to rebut continuing criticism about the weight of red tape.
Economists at the World Bank are rebutting claims that globalization hurts the poor.
A leading UK supermarket has strenuously rebutted allegations that it exerts a monopoly over the UK's £124bn grocery market.
A lawyer for the bank's CEO said he had been given too little time to rebut the report's conclusions ahead of a board vote later this week.
However, one could also rebut the original rebutting defeater.
A selection with this pronunciation is: rebut, recant, reduce, refresh, refuse, regret, relent, remove, repeat, repute, requite, resemble, resist, retain, reveal, revolt and reward.
An approach to negotiation based on argumentation using rebutting and undercutting was presented, which could aid agents to specialise their particular roles or behaviours.
He then uses secondary historical and political science works to rebut each claim.
So the existence of human-rights-friendly ideas or values in wide range of religious or cultural traditions does not rebut the parochialism objection.
In other words, strictly derived literals can not be rebutted.
To rebut such a charge it would need to be shown that older people dying of cancer are less in need of palliative care.
How does the duty of respect help us rebut the straight-to-morality assumption?
