defeasible
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Science—the research programme, the experimental method, the interlocking of pure science and new technology, the language of defeasible knowledge—was invented between 1571 and 1704.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Wotton’s ‘Tacit Reserve’, which is the principle that all scientific reasoning is defeasible, is of fundamental importance.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
It must be of a thing defeasible, and all the conditions must be strictly carried out before the defeasance can be consummated.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
It is defeasible now by the wife's will.—Cow.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
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