irrefutability

If it has a rational basis that direct relationship should be weaker because of the idea's eventual logical irrefutability.

A Quote that Should Have Been in My Book, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The desire to ensure irrefutability, perhaps the legacy of reflection on the Socratic elenchus, drives him to the conclusion that one really has recollected the Form only when one has become a metaphysician.

Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

It seems to be the general opinion that absolute certainty is not something that we humans can hope for; that the best we can attain is a highly established near irrefutability.

On Absolute Certainty 2007

Nothing like hysterical rhetoric to give your argument that final torque of irrefutability.

Triumph the wonder dog would have fun with this Holly 2006

Nothing like hysterical rhetoric to give your argument that final torque of irrefutability.

Archive 2006-01-01 Holly 2006

By having the “old school” so dogmatic and resistant to change, it forces the new turks to provide a strong argument, to the point of irrefutability.

Mann on Splices: the Case of Crowley and Lowery « Climate Audit 2005

That may be correct: this ostensibly simple, naked and mundanely unassuming account of a young boy's life and sufferings in Auschwitz, Zeitz and Buchenwald possesses a weightiness and irrefutability that puts it not only at the core of one man's literary production but also of contemporary European prose.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 2002 - Presentation Speech 2002

She stared at us indignantly, her arms folded across her breasts, as though the irrefutability of her logic should have been obvious to anyone.

Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

She stared at us indignantly, her arms folded across her breasts, as though the irrefutability of her logic should have been obvious to anyone.

Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002

He paused too, presumably long enough for Parlabane to realise that the sheer irrefutability of Scowl's arguinent had rendered him speechiess, upon which Scowl would resume.

Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000