unrevisable

Within foundationalist approaches some subset of beliefs is considered to be unrevisable, thereby serving as a foundation on which all other beliefs are to be based.

John Rawls Wenar, Leif 2008

"To him fatherhood was one long unrevisable bourgeois script full of unexpected plot turns and predictable blow-ups in the third act, but that was the script he had been handed and now he was in the play."

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"To him fatherhood was one long unrevisable bourgeois script full of unexpected plot turns and predictable blow-ups in the third act, but that was the script he had been handed and now he was in the play."

Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter 2006

"To him fatherhood was one long unrevisable bourgeois script full of unexpected plot turns and predictable blow-ups in the third act, but that was the script he had been handed and now he was in the play."

Saul and Patsy by Charles Baxter 2006

They are unrevisable only in a weak sense, in that their proper framework itself may become inapplicable and so get discarded.

Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

Therein lay the weakness Quine's argument could exploit: analytic truths remained unrevisable in a strong sense.

Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

In ethics, some foundationalist approaches take some subset of our moral beliefs as fixed or unrevisable.

Reflective Equilibrium Daniels, Norman 2003

For example, some foundationalists view particular moral judgments as fixed; others might think it is our moral principles or some deeper theoretical beliefs from which such principles might be derived that are fixed and unrevisable.

Reflective Equilibrium Daniels, Norman 2003

Since (*) is supposed to be analytic, it's supposed to be unrevisable.

Scientific Realism Boyd, Richard 2002

Victories like these, seemingly so casual, really as final and as unrevisable as Fate, might well cause Englishmen to suspect that Destiny itself worked with them, and that an Englishman could be trusted to endure through any difficulties to a triumphant conclusion.

George Washington Thayer, William R 1922