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The mind also appears in a new passage called the Refutation of Idealism, where Kant attempts to tie the possibility of one sort of consciousness of self to consciousness of permanence in something other than ourselves, in a way he thought to be inconsistent with Berkeleian idealism.
Kant's View of the Mind and Consciousness of Self Brook, Andrew 2008
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"Refutation" of this sort is the first step towards oblivion.
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"Refutation" of Whitaker's attack on the Reims version (Paris, 1583);
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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"Refutation" and "Apology"; in these he explicitly declared that there never was a time when God was not Father, that Christ always was, being Word and Wisdom and Power, and coeternal, even as brightness is not posterior to the light from which it proceeds.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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"Refutation", in 1655. of the catechism of Paul Ferry, a renowned
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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As Fr. Thomas Crean ably pointed out in God Is No Delusion: A Refutation of Richard Dawkins (Ignatius Press, 2007), Dawkins might be a fine biologist, but he's not much of a philosopher or researcher or respecter of anything coming from Christian sources.
Science 2009
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As it was mid-January, and the campus had been under a foot of snow when Charles had come to work that morning, he was not prepared to emerge from the newly renamed Department of Refutation Building to find a row of lofty palm trees rattling in a balmy breeze.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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From now on, our department will be known as the Department of Refutation of the Too Good to Be True.
Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010
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Refutation argue against a particular version of a narrative story
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Refutation argue against a particular version of a narrative story
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