Assertion: reasoning's inference | /r/HasProperty | defeasible
Facets:
value: always
type: DEGREE
value: clearly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Inferences based on these conventions are defeasible, however, because the conventions can themselves be explicitly abrogated or suspended.
text: These paradoxes can be resolved by recognizing that the inference from imperative to actual duty is a defeasible one (Asher and Bonevac 1996; Nute 1997).
text: Such an inference is, of course, defeasible, since if I subsequently learn that I have a sister after all, the basis for the original inference is nullified.
text: However, this inference is clearly defeasible: Jones might be hit by a truck midway across and never complete the crossing.
text: As Cartwright points out, an inference based on such a law of nature is always defeasible, since we may discover that additional phenomenological factors must be added to the law in question in special cases.