Single Idea 19713

[catalogued under 13. Knowledge Criteria / A. Justification Problems / 1. Justification / c. Defeasibility]

Full Idea

Advocates of the defeasibility theory have tried to exclude true pieces of information that are misleading defeaters.

Gist of Idea

Defeasibility theory needs to exclude defeaters which are true but misleading

Source

Thomas Grundmann (Defeasibility Theory [2011], 'What')

Book Reference

'Routledge Companion to Epistemology', ed/tr. Bernecker,S/Pritchard,D [Routledge 2014], p.157


A Reaction

He gives as an example the genuine news of a claim that the suspect has a twin.