Definition of "defeasibility" []

• State or instance of being defeasible. (noun)

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