An indefeasible right to freedom. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The title so regis - tered is made by law indefeasible, that is, the certificate is given the effect of a decree of court which cannot be questioned. From Wordnik.com. [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference
While NBN Co should be prepared to build, they should also be "open to securing long-term indefeasible rights of use from existing dark fibre assets on these routes. From Wordnik.com. [iTnews Australia] Reference
'Constantine purchased an indefeasible title by a charter. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Even so, it means that we lack fully indefeasible Knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
This view allows that atheists can have indefeasible Knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
And herein those qualities have an indefeasible title to regard. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
I finally purchased a property on what was called an indefeasible. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
And upon claiming finally to have achieved indefeasible Knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
This gives me the indefeasible right to dogmatize about preaching. From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
Many commentators hold that it is supposed to count as indefeasible Knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Of such a man I say, he has obtained by warrant indefeasible the title peerless. From Wordnik.com. [Agesilaus] Reference
Since the abolition of chattel slavery this has been indefeasible except for crime. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
Their political principles were those of indefeasible right and hereditary monarchy. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
He no longer insists on indefeasible Knowledge, now settling for probabilistic arguments. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Ireland, and to the unfettered control of Irish destinies, to be sovereign and indefeasible. From Wordnik.com. [Six days of the Irish Republic A Narrative and Critical Account of the Latest Phase of Irish Politics] Reference
Other texts can be cited in support of the interpretation of the cogito as indefeasible Knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Morals are "eternal and immutable" principles, absolutely irrefutable and indefeasible in experience. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
There are interpretive disputes about whether the cogito is supposed to count as indefeasible Knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Of course, that does not imply that the “sonar” justification of such a belief is indefeasible by touch. From Wordnik.com. [A Priori Justification and Knowledge] Reference
Yet he disclaimed the hereditary, indefeasible right of Kings, and condemned the measures of James the Second. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Hereafter, I refer to the indefeasible brand of knowledge Descartes seeks as ˜Knowledge™ (uppercase ˜K™). From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Thus I am not disputing this vital fact which the classical economists have (rightly) asserted as indefeasible. From Wordnik.com. [The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money] Reference
Mr. Lincoln discovered that no peace was attainable unless based upon the recognition of our indefeasible rights. From Wordnik.com. [The Guns Of The South]
He had many valuable considerations to forfeit for the one abstract principle of indefeasible right to the throne. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I.] Reference
The present satisfaction we receive in them by faith, is the best evidence we have of an indefeasible interest in them. From Wordnik.com. [Christologia] Reference
Descartes 'aim of indefeasible Knowledge requires that he overcome both kinds of doubt, since either one defeats Knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
He would have rejected it as a proposed crime, and talked much of the indefeasible rights of the coming heirs of the new heir. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Richmond] Reference
In any case, the Fifth Meditation comes to a close with Descartes asserting that indefeasible Knowledge has finally been achieved. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Every one proclaimed his indefeasible right to the property; every one firmly believed himself sole lord and master of all he surveyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
This means that a land holder granted conclusive title to his property by the State will have an indefeasible right over this property. From Wordnik.com. [India Lands in a Mess] Reference
These words are among the indefeasible descriptors about which historians rightly say: "With that kind of license, you can bag any game.". From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: New York Times to America: Stay the Course in Iraq] Reference
The most confident assertions of the effects of use and disuse in modifying the heritable type, appear to rest on this indefeasible basis. From Wordnik.com. [Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin] Reference
Descartes maintains that though atheists are quite capable of impressive knowledge they are incapable of the indefeasible brand of knowledge he seeks. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Secondly, there are indefeasible marks that distinguish a finite self-consciousness (as an object and original) from the divine representation (copy) of it. From Wordnik.com. [Moses Mendelssohn] Reference
This is not to say that one obeys only in treating the authority's say-so as an indefeasible reason for action; but one must treat as a binding content-independent reason. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Obligation and Authority] Reference
He's aware that the naturalistic “solution” does not stand up to methodic doubt, but he's not attempting to refute the Now Dream Doubt by establishing indefeasible Knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
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