Confute vs Conflate - What's the difference?
confute | conflate |
To show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute.
* 1593 , (Henry Peacham), The Garden of Eloquence :
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.
To mix together different elements.
To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to treat (them) as equivalent.
(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
* 1999 , Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint :
(biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
As verbs the difference between confute and conflate
is that confute is to show (something or someone) to be false or wrong; to disprove or refute while conflate is to bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.As an adjective conflate is
combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.As a noun conflate is
a conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.confute
English
Verb
(confut)- Procatalepsis is a forme of speech by which the Orator perceiving aforehand what might be objected against him, and hurt him, doth confute it before it be spoken .
- bad books [...] to a discreet and judicious Reader serve in many respects to discover, to confute , to forewarn, and to illustrate.
conflate
English
Verb
(conflat)Synonyms
* (to bring together) fuse, meld * (mix together) mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, mergeAdjective
(-)- Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.