A claim to an estate may be defeasible so long as the claimant is under 21 and unmarried. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The relations between states and events are computed as strong probabilities, in the process called defeasible reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics] Reference
But it is always defeasible in light of further inquiry. From Wordnik.com. [Dewey's Moral Philosophy] Reference
The evidential support described in (R) is, of course, defeasible. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalized Epistemology] Reference
This alone does not prove that the cogito is supposed to be defeasible. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
This ˜gluing together™ is defeasible, in that the rules result in the dependency. From Wordnik.com. [Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics] Reference
But the conclusion is defeasible, in that B-ness is not a necessary trait of A's, but only. From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
Related Entries artificial intelligence: logic and | logic: classical | reasoning: defeasible. From Wordnik.com. [Automated Reasoning] Reference
But the fact that a power is "inherent" does not mean that it is exclusive, or non-defeasible. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
But he regularly characterizes defeasible judgments at this level of certainty using terminology. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
It is, in fact, a distinct relation for which causal dependence is, at best, a defeasible marker. From Wordnik.com. [My Shasta Daisy] Reference
Perhaps the clearest examples are derived from legal reasoning, in which defeasible assumptions abound. From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
But it isn't clear what version of non-cognitivism can take advantage of this sort of defeasible connection. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
“Acceptance Principle” is a fallible, easily defeasible norm which only describes our epistemic condition. From Wordnik.com. [Epistemological Problems of Testimony] Reference
I take it that naturalism does give us some reason to believe in all such entities, but that this is defeasible. From Wordnik.com. [Indispensability Arguments in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
The following figure provides a schematic representation of this state of affairs in the form a (defeasible) network. From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
Thus what X-practitioners in fact believe usually serves as good, though defeasible, evidence for what X-standards sanction. From Wordnik.com. [Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
Like I said, I have a general presumption in favor of striking workers but the presumption is a defeasible one in some cases. From Wordnik.com. [Bayonet-point capitalism] Reference
We assume that these defeasible conclusions are built into whatever inferential mechanism implements the non-monotonic relation. From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
Taking the latter line, O'Neill is less comfortable with a conception of rights as defeasible by public aims, even admirable ones. From Wordnik.com. [Parenthood and Procreation] Reference
Inasmuch as charity is taken to generate particular attributions of belief, so those attributions are, of course, always defeasible. From Wordnik.com. [Donald Davidson] Reference
This just means that perception, and intuition based on failures to imagine counterexamples, are defeasible sources of justification. From Wordnik.com. [A Priori Justification and Knowledge] Reference
Further, a priori justification is fallible, and both it and a priori knowledge are defeasible, both by a priori and empirical evidence. From Wordnik.com. [A Priori Justification and Knowledge] Reference
Hence, a right not to be risk-exposed will have to be defeasible so that it can be overridden when the increases in probability are small. From Wordnik.com. [Risk] Reference
He allows that judgments grounded in clear and distinct perception are defeasible (at least, for those who've not yet read the Meditations). From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
One such response is not to accept a defeasible version of internalism, but rather to claim that amoralists do not have genuine moral beliefs. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
But this conclusion is defeasible, and can be undermined by the acquisition of new information, for example by the information that x is a bat. From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
It suggests that defeasible (non-monotonic) logic, probability theory and other non-classical formal frameworks may be well suited to this task. From Wordnik.com. [Informal Logic] Reference
They are nevertheless directed to invariant structures and conditions and raise universal, but defeasible claims to an account of practical reason. From Wordnik.com. [Jürgen Habermas] Reference
They are nevertheless directed to universal structures and conditions and raise universal, but defeasible claims to an account of practical reason. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Theory] Reference
The skeptical reasoner recognizes that this is a conflict not between hard facts and defeasible inferences, but between two different defeasible inferences. From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
The conclusion of the preceding discussion is that monotony has to be abandoned, if we want to give a formal account of these patterns of defeasible reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
Worthy of attention is that Descartes characterizes the cogito using the same cognitive language that he uses to characterize the atheist's defeasible cognition. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
(ii) conflicts between one potential defeasible conclusion and another. From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
(again, perhaps overrideable or defeasible, but still some motivation) to promote, pursue, protect, or respect it. From Wordnik.com. [Metaethics] Reference
(many formalisms, for instance, provide some form of defeasible inference rules, and such rules might have conflicting conclusions). From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
Bertram's creditors, the right of most of whom was, however, defeasible in case Henry Bertram should establish his character of heir of entail. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
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