What's the difference between irrefutable and refutable?

Irrefutable


Definition:

  • (a.) Incapable of being refuted or disproved; indisputable.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) TV thrillers offer the forensic promise that a crime will always be solved, and a random-stop DNA swab can irrefutably convict an unsuspected murderer.
  • (2) "If it is irrefutably proven that the blood of innocent Muslims is spilled by the negligence of mujahideen then a penalty should be implemented in accordance with sharia," the statement said.
  • (3) It has been the experience of major urban EMS systems that field participation by physicians has lent irrefutable credibility to the authority of medical directors.
  • (4) In Professor Barnes’s report we now have irrefutable evidence that cannabis is an effective medicine for very large numbers of people,” Meacher told the Guardian.
  • (5) Sex-reversal of these individuals has been irrefutably demonstrated through genetic, cytogenetic, enzymatic and immunological studies.
  • (6) What last year’s revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe.
  • (7) Phyllis Dorothy James was born in Oxford in 1920 – a year that's doubly celebrated by crime aficionados, since it also heralded the dawning of the Golden Age of detective fiction , that interwar flowering of intricately plotted mysteries, in which the preternaturally shrewd detective is invited to pick his way through a liberal scattering of clues and red herrings, before confronting reader and murderer with his irrefutable conclusions in the final pages.
  • (8) Carcinogen-DNA adduct formation, presumed to constitute tumorigenic initiation, provides irrefutable evidence of exposure and some indication of biologically effective dose to target tissues.
  • (9) What is denied most sharply invariably turns out to be irrefutably true.
  • (10) "What last year's revelations showed us was irrefutable evidence that unencrypted communications on the internet are no longer safe.
  • (11) Clearly this World Cup has elevated this discussion to a level that can no longer be ignored and the facts are irrefutable.” Orsatti said Fifpro wants an “independently managed sideline concussion protocol”, pointing to the growing body of evidence that supports this and the experiences of other sports, in particular the NFL in the US.
  • (12) He asked the Russian authorities to “either release [Sentsov] or try him only for what you can prove irrefutably”.
  • (13) But there is at least a strong argument to make, if not an irrefutable one, that the Swedish government is able to offer precisely the guarantee that both Assange and Ecuadorean authorities have sought in order to enable him immediately to travel to Sweden to face the sex assault allegations against him.
  • (14) The influence of Sydenham's medicine can be seen in the following areas of Locke's philosophy: his "plain historical method"; the emphasis on observation and sensory experience instead of seeking the essence of things; the rejection of hypotheses and principles; the refusal of research into final causes and inner mechanisms; the ideal of irrefutable evidence and skepticism on the possibilities of certainty in science.
  • (15) New statutes concerning brain death imply that irrefutable technical evidence is readily available to diagnose brain death, that brain death is as valid a sign of death as any former criteria, and that in certain situtations brain death must be used to pronounce death.
  • (16) To argue anything else is to make a mockery of the legal system in general and the concept (and irrefutable value) of prisoner rehabilitation in particular.
  • (17) Because, while I could put forward a decent argument on why Duncan Smith is not a great conceiver, I can put forward an irrefutable one that he is a hopeless implementer.
  • (18) The prosecution submitted that the evidence irrefutably proved the case against the accused but the suspects pleaded not guilty, claiming they had been framed by police.
  • (19) The failure of Trigynon cannot be irrefutable ascribed to minocycline as unintended pregnancy also occurs while using OCs without antibiotics.
  • (20) The evidence that mass loss in Greenland and west Antarctica has been accelerating since the early 1990s is irrefutable.

Refutable


Definition:

  • (a.) Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The operational meaning of all the resulting theorems is that when any of them appear to be refuted experimentally, the presence of more than one parallel transport pathway (that is, of membrane heterogeneity transverse to the direction of transport) can be inferred and analyzed.
  • (2) The results presented refute arguments that these enzymes proceed by a concerted mechansim and support the intermediacy of aminoacyladenylates.
  • (3) Theories of urea formation during allantoin degradation in Glycine max have been recently refuted.
  • (4) A mitochondriogenic mechanism of calcification could not be confirmed nor refuted by this study.
  • (5) The probability that the initial situation is correct--the proband and the cohabitant's six children are all legitimate-is "practically refuted": W = 0.03%.
  • (6) The IFS says similar declines emerge if you set the figure as low as 40% of median income – utterly refuting Nick Clegg's toxic line dismissing the threshold as just "poverty plus a pound" .
  • (7) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
  • (8) The need for neighboring states to use their data to confirm or refute findings is stressed.
  • (9) Hume, whose grantmaking credentials include leading a £500m cancer and palliative care grant programme for the Big Lottery Fund, refutes the notion that hospices will lose out.
  • (10) Additional studies are highly desirable to confirm or refute these findings, which, if valid, mean increasing lung cancer hazards caused by a decrease in ventilation in future energy saving unless special measures are undertaken to reduce radon daughters in dwellings.
  • (11) This did not happen and, on the evidence presented in this paper, the Fry theory of the pathogenesis of the deviated nasal septum is refuted.
  • (12) Marshall refuted claims CSIRO was moving away from public good scientific research , labelling it disturbing and untrue.
  • (13) This explanation was refuted, as all thymic subpopulations were found to express CD1, albeit with differences in antigen density, whereas all extrathymic subpopulations lack CD1.
  • (14) Location of En at the MN locus would not, however, refute the theory that Wra and Wrb cannot function in the absence of En.
  • (15) The hypothesis that the function of recA gene is to convert the unidirectionally replicating machinery in the free state to the bidirectionally replicating one in the integrated state is refuted accordingly.
  • (16) Observation refutes Freud's often quoted statement that masturbation is further removed from the nature of women than of men.
  • (17) Use of such data led to a false impression of drug efficacy, an impression later refuted when proper control studies demonstrated that the range of disease was much greater than had been previously supposed.
  • (18) Results refute the assertion that people who stutter are more anxious or depressed than those who do not.
  • (19) The claim made by astrologers that people can be characterized according to their sign of the zodiac (sagitarius, taurus, cancer, scorpion) must be refuted.
  • (20) Predictions from the chiasma map can be confirmed or refuted only by genetic evidence for which the estimates of this paper serve as initial values to begin maximum likelihood iteration.