Refute vs Falsification - What's the difference?
refute | falsification |
To prove (something) to be false or incorrect.
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To deny the truth or correctness of (something).
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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
As a verb refute
is .As a noun falsification is
the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.refute
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(refut)Usage notes
The second meaning of (refute) (to deny the truth of) is proscribed as erroneous by some(compare Merriam Webster,1994). An alternative term with such a meaning is (repudiate), which means to reject or refuse to acknowledge, but without the implication of justification. However, this distinction does not exist in the original Latin , which can apply to both senses.
