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Defeasible

Potentially subject to defeat, termination, or Annulment upon the occurrence of a future action or event, or the performance of a condition subsequent.The most common legal application of the term is with respect to estates as interest in land, such as in the case of a conveyance or a life estate, which is defeasible upon the happening of a certain specified event, for example, the death of the person holding such an interest.

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defeasible

see DEFEASANCE.

DEFEASIBLE. What may be undone or annulled.

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He shows that the belief in the identity of matter is not a defeasibly justifying belief.

Schmitt, Frederick F. Hume's Epistemology in the Treatise: A Veritistic Interpretation

The former doesn't have a moral nature because, while it can have various moral imports (good-making, bad-making, indifferent) in various contexts, it has none of them defeasibly.

On Knowing the `Why' Particularism and Moral Theory

First, it seems to fail to appreciate the full effect of a defeasibly structured accommodation of plural values.

Law, incommensurability, and conceptually sequenced argument

However, as I noted earlier, contemporary moral foundationalists defend weak moral foundationalism, according to which foundational moral beliefs are only defeasibly justified.

Self-evidence and disagreement in ethics

14) Haack acknowledges that there are many versions of foundationalism, including weak foundationalism which holds that basic beliefs are justified merely prima facie but defeasibly, to some degree but not completely, by something other than a belief" (p.

Evidence and Inquiry: Toward Reconstruction in Epistemology

in the "nature" of fish eggs to develop into fish or whether "it is of the essence of lying that it is defeasibly wrong-making," or whether "the Good is, necessarily, defeasibly such as to be pursued" (2006a, 317) does not depend on facts about fish eggs or lying or the Good.

Moral principles are not moral laws

On Evans's view, the judgments I make about how things appear to me--just like my judgments about how the world is--are based upon my perceptual experience: To say how things now appear to me is to say how I would judge the world to be if I were to judge purely on the basis of my current experience, that is, in such a way that the judgment would be prima facie, though defeasibly, justified by that very experience.

Nonconceptual Content and the "Space of Reasons"

There is also the possibility that the condition is supposed to be defeasibly necessary or defeasibly sufficient, such that having human rights goes with being human, barring special circumstances.

"Simply in virtue of being human": the whos and whys of human rights

Just as there are basic empirical beliefs--noninferential beliefs that are immediately, if defeasibly, justified on the basis of experience, there are noninferential beliefs that are immediately, if defeasibly, justified on the basis of rational insight.