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Definition of defeater in English: defeaternoun dɪˈfiːtə A person or thing that defeats or conquers someone or something. the onset of hopelessness is the great defeater Example sentencesExamples - I present various epistemic situations and claim of each that a person in such a situation does not have an undefeated defeater for each of his beliefs.
- This fact is a defeater of evolution.
- Evidence is ordinarily regarded as conclusive, not when it eliminates every conceivable defeater, but when it eliminates all relevant defeaters.
- He is not going to be the defeater in that district no matter what happens.
- Even if I defeated myself, I would still exist as the defeater.
- This is a potential defeater for my being rational in accepting theistic belief.
- The most prominent of these was Sultan Saladin, the 12th-century defeater of the Crusaders and liberator of Jerusalem.
- European colonialists started eyeing the airplane as a potential defeater of colonial peoples and enforcer of colonial authority.
- Ronald Reagan is now being proposed as a replacement on the US dime or 10 cent piece for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the defeater of the Axis.
- Nimue is specifically named as a Lady of the Lake; she is the defeater, or perhaps simply replacer, of Merlin at Arthur's Court.
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