Thinning in the 'Quiet' Eye When a patient presents with some thinning in his corneal periphery, one of the first questions physicians ask is whether or not the eye is inflamed. If it's not, ophthalmologists say you can then look for the following causes:
Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Refutation(noun) the act or process of refuting or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. Origin: [L. refutatio: cf. F. rfutation.]
Refutability of a statement, hypothesis, or theory is an inherent possibility to prove it to be false. A statement is called this if it is possible to conceive an observation or an argument which proves the statement in question to be false.