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self-refutation

noun

Etymology

From self- + refutation.

  1. borrowed from refūtātiō
  2. borrowed from refutation
  3. prefixed as self-refutation — “self + refutation”

Definitions

  1. An act of self-refuting.

    • 2009, Hales, Relativism and the Foundations of Philosophy I remember grappling with the self-refutation objection back in my undergraduate days in a philosophy of science course under Robert Frederick.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for self-refutation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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