Difference between Refutation and Falsification

What is the difference between Refutation and Falsification?

Refutation as a noun is an act of refuting or disproving; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; confutation; disproof; evidence of falseness. while Falsification as a noun is the act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.

Refutation

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An act of refuting or disproving; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine or theory by argument or countervailing proof; confutation; disproof; evidence of falseness. A vocal answer to an attack on one's assertions

Falsification

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.Willful misstatement or misrepresentation.Showing an item of charge in an account to be wrong.

We hope you now know whether to use Refutation or Falsification in your sentence.

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