defeasibility

The differences in using the term ˜default™ consist of the acceptance or rejection of at least the following properties: cancellability (also known as defeasibility) of preferred interpretations; availability of preferred interpretations without making use of conscious inference; shorter time required for their formation by the speaker and recognition by the addressee as compared with that required for the meanings induced through inference; the availability of preferred interpretations prior to the completion of the processing of the entire proposition (local, pre-propositional defaults).

Defaults in Semantics and Pragmatics Jaszczolt, K. M. 2006

Are these genuine epistemic possibilities that must be ruled out or are they defeasibility conditions that only exclude knowledge if actual or true?

Epistemological Problems of Testimony Adler, Jonathan 2006

According to theodicies that emphasize soul-making and defeasibility, this is not because God is malevolent, but so that we can share with him the knowledge that evil is creation's enemy, and partake in the glory of its defeat.

Divine Providence McCann, Hugh J. 2006

On the defeasibility of clear and distinct perception

Descartes' Epistemology Newman, Lex 2005

There have been a variety of approaches to this dilemma, and to defeasibility among conflicting obligations. [

Deontic Logic McNamara, Paul 2006