Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms or confutes; but the confirmation, where it is possible, consists, in the last analysis, of agreement with other beliefs no less instinctive.
"Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays"
Bertrand Russell
But Panaetius sufficiently confutes this in his books concerning Socrates.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
This clause at once confutes every assertion of the antifederalists respecting the new congress being able to secure to themselves all offices of power, profit and trust.
"Essays on the Constitution of the United States"
Paul Leicester Ford