Most of the philosophical essays by Savas L. Tsohatzidis collected in Truth, Force, and Knowledge in Language (2020) are refutational in character. This paper examines the role of counterexamples in Tsohatzidis’s argumentation and the inferential patterns through which they function, drawing on examples from across his work. Although his refutational arguments often focus on seemingly marginal or narrowly defined classes of sentences, their ultimate targets are invariably the foundational assumptions of general theories of meaning, whether truth-conditional or use-based.