complete answer; disproof, conviction, redargution†, invalidation;
exposure, exposition; clincher; retort; reductio ad absurdum; knock
down argument, tu quoque argument [Lat.]; sockdolager [U.S.],
correction &c 572.1; dissuasion &c 616.
V. confute, refute, disprove; parry, negative, controvert, rebut,
confound, disconfirm, redargue†, expose, show the fallacy of, defeat;
demolish, break &c (destroy) 162; overthrow, overturn scatter to the
winds, explode, invalidate; silence; put to silence, reduce to silence;
clinch an argument, clinch a question; give one a setdown†, stop the
mouth, shut up; have, have on the hip.
not leave a leg to stand on, cut the ground from under one's feet.
be confuted &c; fail; expose one's weak point, show one's weak
point.
counter evidence &c 468.
Adj. confuting, confuted, &c v.; capable of refutation; refutable,
confutable†, defeasible.
contravene (counter evidence) 468.
condemned on one's own showing, condemned out of one's own mouth.
Phr. the argument falls to the ground, cadit quaestio [Lat.], it does
not hold water, suo sibi gladio hunc jugulo [Terence]; his argument was
demolished by new evidence.
SECTION V.
RESULTS OF REASONING