confuter
IPA: kʌnfjˈutɝ
noun
- A person who confutes
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Examples of "confuter" in Sentences
- &c. But instar omnium, the most copious confuter of atheists is Marinus Mercennus in his
- This was our question, this we debated, and this Mr.K. might have sent for, and have spoken to, since he will needs be a confuter.
- THE youthful confuter of Locke was despatched to Merton School, and ranked, according to his merits, as lag of the penultimate form.
- Oracle doctrine of the fathers, -- there is a still more flagrant argument against the fathers, which it is perfectly confounding to find both them and their confuter overlooking.
- In order to detect the fallacy, the proposition thus silently assumed must be supplied; but the reasoner, most likely, has never really asked himself what he was assuming; his confuter, unless permitted to extort it from him by the Socratic mode of interrogation, must himself judge what the suppressed premise ought to be in order to support the conclusion.
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