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- verb Present participle of
counterargue .
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Research findings confirming a hypothesis are accepted more or less at face value, but when confronted with contrary evidence, we become “motivated skeptics” (Kunda, 1990), mulling over possible reasons for the “failure”, picking apart possible flaws in the study, recoding variables, and only when all the counterarguing fails do we rethink our beliefs.
Notes on Critical Review's Converse issue, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Facing off intellectually with the dominant Western powers, small activist groups and writers based in liberal democracies are counterarguing by informing their readers of the theological bases upon which the Islamists have been building their indoctrination and mobilization campaigns.
The Coming Revolution Walid Phares 2010
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Will counterarguing that when oxen did stampede, they ran much wilder.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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Will counterarguing that when oxen did stampede, they ran much wilder.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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Will counterarguing that when oxen did stampede, they ran much wilder.
The Chisholms Evan Hunter 1976
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