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How To Use defeasible In A Sentence

• Inasmuch as charity is taken to generate particular attributions of belief, so those attributions are, of course, always defeasible. Donald Davidson
• Besides being fallible, it seems that a priori justification is defeasible, that is, all-things-considered a priori justification can be defeated by further evidence. A Priori Justification and Knowledge
• Can they assume that the title is indefeasible and that they will not be disturbed at some date in the future by someone else claiming the estate?
• As we refrain from intervention domestically in the interest of encouraging productive trade, we should be guided by a defeasible presumption of non-intervention on the international stage in the interest of preventing this undesirable variety. In Defense of My Retroactive Smugness
• They were not in any way, shape or form defeasible.
• He no longer insists on indefeasible knowledge, now settling for probabilistic arguments.
• The relations between states and events are computed as strong probabilities, in the process called defeasible reasoning. Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics
• In the jargon, this means that any scientific claim is defeasible, meaning it is in principle open to revision or rejection in the light of further disclosures, arguments, or evidence.
• These constraints are ranked as to their strength and they are defeasible, that is, they can be violated (see Zeevat 2000, 2004). Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics
• As a universal spam blocking tool Spam Blocker possesses indefeasible advantages compared to analogical applications.