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Capable of being overridden or withdrawn when sufficient contrary reasons or conditions arise.
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- defeasible inference
- defeasible presumption
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The presumption was defeasible if new records appeared.
He treated the conclusion as a defeasible inference.
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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a relation or classification; comparisons require a meaningful context. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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