For some philosophers, “the wrongfulness of lying is ¦ built into the definition of the term” (Kemp and Sullivan 1993, 153), and the claim that lying is defeasibly morally wrong, or indefeasibly morally wrong, is a tautology ❋ Mahon, James Edwin (2008)
According to all of the definitions of lying so far considered, it is not part of the meaning of lying that it is morally wrong, either defeasibly or indefeasibly. ❋ Mahon, James Edwin (2008)
Since, according to this definition, lying is always a violation of another person's right of liberty of judgment with the intention to harm that other person, and because, according to those who defend this definition, it is indefeasibly wrong to do this, for these philosophers, the claim that lying is indefeasibly morally wrong is a tautology. ❋ Mahon, James Edwin (2008)
These texts make a powerful case that nothing can be indefeasibly Known prior to establishing that we're creatures of an all-perfect God, not an evil genius. ❋ Newman, Lex (2005)
Propositions in this special class can be indefeasibly Known even by atheists. ❋ Newman, Lex (2005)
I descended a little on the Side of that delicious Vale, surveying it with a secret Kind of Pleasure, tho' mixt with my other afflicting Thoughts to think that this was all my own, that I was King and Lord of all this Country indefeasibly, and had a Right of Possession; and if I could convey it, I might have it in Inheritance, as compleatly as any Lord of a Mannor in England. ❋ Jenny Davidson (2004)
Without an approach to a consensus, the aesthetic impulse can never be content; for it is indefeasibly sociable. ❋ Dewitt H. Parker (N/A)
There was a feeling of ease among them, too, of the indefeasibly won, which the event is apt to bring even when the surgeon-lieutenant-colonelcy is most strikingly deserved. ❋ Sara Jeannette Duncan (N/A)
'Venerable to me is the hard Hand; crooked, coarse; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the Sceptre of this Planet. ❋ George Henry Blore (N/A)
Venerable to me is the hard Hand; crooked, coarse; wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)
The image of the two of them -- he a tiny child, but both of them children lost in time -- was just a weathering photograph, a jaundicing pallid image lost forever, as a web page with an address that was indefeasibly and indelibly forgotten by all in time's thicket of images. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
No man's body is given him absolutely, indefeasibly, and at once, _ex dono ❋ Various (N/A)
Now they had really, his Dead, something that was indefeasibly theirs; and he liked to think that they might, in cases, be the Dead of others, as well as that the Dead of others might be invoked there under the protection of what he had done. ❋ Unknown (1915)
It is certain that a man is indefeasibly the owner of what he has been able to produce by his own labour out of his own material, employing his own resources. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
When the meaning of successive perceptions is recovered with the last of them, when a survey is made of objects whose constitutive sensations first arose independently, this synthetic moment contains an object raised above time on a pedestal of reflection, a thought indefeasibly true in its ideal deliverance, though of course fleeting in its psychic existence. ❋ George Santayana (1907)
We want that kind of coherence that will make everybody in the Empire instinctively feel that while we do not wish to quarrel with the rest of the world, if the emergency arises we shall be found standing back to back absolutely and indefeasibly against the world. ❋ Unknown (1904)
Every man owns indefeasibly this inlet to the divine. ❋ Unknown (1902)
He vindicated the reasonableness of some truths which men had indeed felt to be indefeasibly true, but which they had not been able to establish by reasoning. ❋ Edward Caldwell Moore (1900)
