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Defeater

A defeater of a belief is evidence that this belief is false. Defeaters are of particular interest to epistemology because they affect whether a belief is justified. An important distinction is between undercutting and rebutting defeaters. Undercutting defeaters remove evidential support for a belief while rebutting defeaters provide evidential support…

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Role in defeasible reasoning

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BeliefEvidenceEpistemologyJustifiedDefeasible reasoning
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related to External links · 12
Defeater → Bradley, Defeasible Reasoning, Defeaters, Dowden, Epistemology, Internet Encyclopedia, ISSN, James, OCLC, Philosophy, PhilPapersFieser, Stanford Encyclopedia
related to Undercutting · 4
Defeater → But, Evidence, For, This
related to Rebutting · 3
Defeater → Evidence, For, Therefore
related to Role in defeasible reasoning · 3
Defeater → Defeaters, In, The
related to Types · 1
Defeater → There

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Defeaterrelated to External linksPhilPapersFieser0.60section
Defeaterrelated to External linksJames0.60section
Defeaterrelated to External linksDowden0.60section
Defeaterrelated to External linksBradley0.60section
Defeaterrelated to External linksDefeaters0.60section
Defeaterrelated to External linksEpistemology0.60section
Defeaterrelated to External linksInternet Encyclopedia0.60section
Defeaterrelated to External linksPhilosophy0.60section
Defeaterrelated to External linksISSN0.60section
Defeaterrelated to External linksOCLC0.60section
Defeaterrelated to External linksDefeasible Reasoning0.60section
Defeaterrelated to External linksStanford Encyclopedia0.60section

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