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Example sentences for: disputation

How can you use “disputation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

For example, there is not only affirmation by demonstration (ergo, hence, therefore, accordingly , but there is also documentation by postulation (it can be assumed, we can suppose) and also validation by synthesization (basically, in truth, in a very real sense) as well as verification by substitution (that is to say, in other words, in short) . Similarly, there is not only confutation by disputation (on the contrary, notwithstanding, however, nevertheless) , but there is also negation by concession (despite, although, allowing that) and also, not least, refutation by capitulation (it might be argued, it would be easy to conclude) .
Since there is disputation about what exactly got said, and your bet was with a friend, Prudie suggests the two of you go out to lunch--Dutch--and devote some of the luncheon conversation to the sad and shabby affair.
As an alternative, she offers Asian authoritarianism: "Disputation was rejected in ancient China as 'incompatible with the decorum and harmony cultivated by the true sage.
In "We Do Understand," William Saletan quotes the following sentence from Deborah Tannen's The Argument Culture : "Disputation was rejected in ancient China as incompatible with the decorum and harmony cultivated by the true sage."