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What is a defeater?

What is a defeater? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One who defeats.
  2. (logic) a belief which, if proved to be true, would imply outright or indirectly that another belief were false.
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European colonialists started eyeing the airplane as a potential defeater of colonial peoples and enforcer of colonial authority.
Evidence is ordinarily regarded as conclusive, not when it eliminates every conceivable defeater, but when it eliminates all relevant defeaters.
The most prominent of these was Sultan Saladin, the 12th-century defeater of the Crusaders and liberator of Jerusalem.
Even if I defeated myself, I would still exist as the defeater.
He is not going to be the defeater in that district no matter what happens.
It is true that awareness of disagreement regarding one's moral endorsements may serve as a defeater.

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