12-06-2025, 01:23 PM
contumacious conduct - stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient. Synonyms: intractable, headstrong, refractory, factious, pigheaded, contrary
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche