Defeasible

Word DEFEASIBLE
Character 10
Hyphenation de fea si ble
Pronunciations [dɪˈfiːzɪbəɫ]

Definitions and meanings of "Defeasible"

What do we mean by defeasible?

Capable of being annulled or invalidated. adjective

That may be abrogated or annulled.

Capable of being annulled or made void. adjective

Capable of being defeated, terminated, annulled, voided or invalidated. adjective

Capable of being annulled or voided or terminated adjective

Capable of being defeated, terminated, annulled, voided or invalidated.

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The word "defeasible" in example sentences

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. ❋ Russell, Bruce (2007)

These constraints are ranked as to their strength and they are defeasible, that is, they can be violated (see Zeevat 2000, 2004). ❋ Jaszczolt, K. M. (2006)

The relations between states and events are computed as strong probabilities, in the process called defeasible reasoning. ❋ Jaszczolt, K. M. (2006)

But it isn't clear what version of non-cognitivism can take advantage of this sort of defeasible connection. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Inasmuch as charity is taken to generate particular attributions of belief, so those attributions are, of course, always defeasible. ❋ Malpas, Jeff (2009)

It is, in fact, a distinct relation for which causal dependence is, at best, a defeasible marker. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One such response is not to accept a defeasible version of internalism, but rather to claim that amoralists do not have genuine moral beliefs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So while judgments are proposition-generating acts (Handlungen) (A69/94), beliefs by contrast are merely defeasible rational pro-attitudes to propositions that presuppose acts of judgment. ❋ Hanna, Robert (2009)

I understand your reluctance to rely on it exclusively you're looking for an airtight argument and the morality argument has limits and problems of its own - being defeasible by a contrary moral imperative, for example, but that's the argument that gets the most traction. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Section 1.2, belief for Kant is a defeasible rational pro-attitude arising from and presupposing an act of judgment and its propositional content; and as noted in ❋ Hanna, Robert (2009)

It followed that although rights for Hook could not be reduced to utilities, preferences or expressions of emotive attitude, all rights, including the right to liberty, were defeasible by other values or interests. ❋ Sidorsky, David (2008)

Thus what X-practitioners in fact believe usually serves as good, though defeasible, evidence for what X-standards sanction. ❋ Paseau, Alexander (2008)

This is clearly out of step with philosophical practice: philosophers look to mathematicians 'views (qua mathematicians) as defeasible data for the philosophy of mathematics, not its conclusion. ❋ Paseau, Alexander (2008)

In the end, the rational evaluation of a view must balance it against all criteria of this kind (of which, inconsistency is, arguably, one), each, on its own, being defeasible. ❋ Priest, Graham (2008)

In other words, deciding that a presidential power is "inherent" or "independent" does not begin to answer the question of whether it is defeasible, or regulable, by statute. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But the fact that a power is "inherent" does not mean that it is exclusive, or non-defeasible. ❋ Unknown (2006)

However, it is one thing to say that success in “a rigorous Turing test” provides no more than defeasible evidence of intelligence; it is quite another to note the probabilistic features to which we have drawn attention in the preceding paragraph. ❋ Oppy, Graham (2008)

I take it that naturalism does give us some reason to believe in all such entities, but that this is defeasible. ❋ Colyvan, Mark (2008)

But the fact that a power is “inherent” does not mean that it is exclusive, or non-defeasible and that Congress may not enact statutes to regulate these functions. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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