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defeasible
(redirected from defeasibly)

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de·fea·si·ble  (d-fz-bl)
adj.
Capable of being annulled or invalidated: a defeasible claim to an estate.

de·feasi·bili·ty, de·feasi·ble·ness n.

defeasible [dɪˈfiːzəbəl]
adj
1. (Law) Law (of an estate or interest in land) capable of being defeated or rendered void
2. (Philosophy) Philosophy (of a judgment, opinion, etc.) having a presupposition in its favour but open to revision if countervailing evidence becomes known Compare incorrigible [3]
defeasibleness , defeasibility n
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Adj.1.defeasible - capable of being annulled or voided or terminated; "a claim to an estate may be defeasible so long as the claimant is under 21 and unmarried"
indefeasible - not liable to being annulled or voided or undone; "an indefeasible right to freedom"; "an indefeasible claim to the title"


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While he singles out Anthony Trollope as an example of the Victorians' awareness of "living defeasibly in time" (84), there is no mention made of Walter Pater, who, in the controversial conclusion to his study on the Renaissance (1869) anticipates the epistemological crisis not only in the works of the French Impressionists, when he says that life is in constant flux and that reality is a sequence of "impressions of the individual mind," which are in "perpetual flight.
Let us compare the analysis given here to the standard account of but, as, for example, in Winter and Rimon (1994): in the standard account, it is assumed that a sentence "P but Q" is licensed if there is a proposition R, such that P defeasibly implies not-R and Q implies R, cf.
 
 
 
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