SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Gov. Jerry Brown wasted no time Tuesday in signing a contentious California bill to impose one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the country following an outbreak of measles at Disneyland late last year.
rebuttal - the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument. refutation, defence, defense - the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive; in defense he said the other man started it.
With this rebuttal, Debaters attack the relevance of their opponentâs arguments to the motion and show that these arugments do not support the opponent's stance. This type of rebuttal can destroy the entire argument by showing that it does not even support the opponentâs stance.