defeasible

• “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

• “The relations between states and events are computed as strong probabilities, in the process called defeasible reasoning.”

  Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics

• “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 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

• “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.”

  Why did Obama pick Leon Panetta — a man with no significant experience in intelligence — to head the C.I.A.?

• “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.”

  Kant's Theory of Judgment

• “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”

  Kant's Theory of Judgment

• “Inasmuch as charity is taken to generate particular attributions of belief, so those attributions are, of course, always defeasible.”

  Donald Davidson

• “But it isn't clear what version of non-cognitivism can take advantage of this sort of defeasible connection.”

  Fictionaut: Boys in White Suits

• “It is, in fact, a distinct relation for which causal dependence is, at best, a defeasible marker.”

  Fictionaut: My Shasta Daisy

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