“We are permitted, defeasibly, to adopt the usual and mutually expected presuppositions of those around us.”
“Most of the work in rational cognition is carried out by epistemic cognition, and must be done defeasibly.”
“This technical report describes the construction of an experimental planner that finds plans by reasoning about them defeasibly rather than by running a search algorithm.”
“Jamie sighed defeatedly, too miserable to continue, and Koda dug into his pockets.”
“Rereading the quartet, I was struck by how much of the book is about running away: Harry, Janice and Nelson all take off at different points, and all return defeatedly.”
“Jill shrugged again, this time defeatedly, as if some toy had been bullied from her hands.”
