CONFUTATIO  

DEMONSTRATIO to the effect that a statement upheld by sonmeone else is false.

Hypernym
  • DEMONSTRATIORATIOCINATIO in the form of what poses as a formal logical or strict empirical proof.
    • RATIOCINATIOSPEECH ACT of developing one's points of view through rational reflection and reasoned argument.
      • SPEECH ACTRHETORICAL TROPE in the form of a deliberate rhetorico-semantic act performed. [This definition is still a tentative stop-gap, and this category is far larger than I would like. It needs to be intelligently subdivided. CH]
        • RHETORICAL TROPE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE mainly concerned with the structural semantics of expressions.
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