Second, the kind of defeater allegedly provided is undercutting, not rebutting. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
You will have this defeater in two different ways. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Even if it did, however, you would have a defeater. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
No; for my defeater-defeater is also a defeater for R. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
We also need the notion of a purely epistemic defeater. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Send your debt defeater story to [email protected]. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Finance: Workplace Wrath] Reference
Am I back where I was before I acquired the defeater for R?. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
What further conditions (if any) must a defeater belief meet?. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
So send your debt defeater story to [email protected]. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Finance: The fight over tax breaks] Reference
So I could acquire a defeater in learning about these theories. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Say that (D) above defines the notion of a defeater simpliciter. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
My error is plain: (2) isn't, in fact, a defeater for (3), for me. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
We might initially try explaining the notion of a defeater as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
This challenge too, I'll argue, does not as such constitute a defeater for. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Does the explanatory idleness of my beliefs constitute a defeater for them?. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Therefore, theism isn't a defeater of R, for her, and the objection crumbles. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Such a person has a defeater for R-- a defeater that can't itself be defeated. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Now what we need initially is some account of what a defeater, for a belief, is. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
You've got those concentric bands, defeater (ph) bands spinning around the center. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2008] Reference
But again, that gives me a defeater for my ordinary and instinctive belief that R. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
You then have a defeater for your belief that the widget you are looking at is red. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
So won't the theist join the naturalist in having a defeater for any of his beliefs?. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Of course that idea is false; but a false belief can nonetheless serve as a defeater. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Then too I might have a defeater, at least a partial defeater, for my theistic belief. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Does your belief in these statistics give you a defeater for the belief that you will recover?. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Then (in the absence of special circumstances) I have a defeater for the belief that there was. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Then too you have a defeater for your natural belief that your cognitive faculties are reliable. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Any such defeater-defeater would be subject to the very defeater defeating R in the first place. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
In either case, once more, I have a defeater for R, just as in the case of the ordinary naturalist. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
However, the point is that rationality does not require that I acquire such a defeater under those conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
Projective theories like Freud's could be a defeater for theistic belief (and hence for Christianity) for some people. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
So this new bit of knowledge is a defeater for that belief with respect to my noetic structure but not with respect to yours. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
As long as I haven't noticed the connection, I don't have a defeater, although I do have what we might call a potential defeater. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
The idea, roughly speaking, is that belief D is a defeater of B for you if proper function requires giving up belief B when you acquire D. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
A defeater for a belief b, then, is another belief d such that, given my noetic structure, I cannot rationally hold b, given that I believe. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
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