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Refutation vs Falsification - What's the difference?

refutation | falsification |

As nouns the difference between refutation and falsification

is that refutation is an act of refuting or disproving; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; confutation; disproof; evidence of falseness while falsification is the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

refutation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of refuting or disproving; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; confutation; disproof; evidence of falseness.
  • A vocal answer to an attack on one's assertions

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    falsification

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not
  • knowingly false statement or wilful misrepresentation
  • showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong