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R is for the arguments that are not subject to rebutting.
Rebutting defeaters against theistic belief threaten the claim that theistic belief is (or can be) rational.
If someone presents a rebutting defeater against theism, one can respond by either rebutting or undercutting the alleged defeater.
Indeed, we can view this as an implication of any (rebutting or undercutting) defeater.
An approach to negotiation based on argumentation using rebutting and undercutting was presented, which could aid agents to specialise their particular roles or behaviours.
However, one could also rebut the original rebutting defeater.
The first kind of refutation is defined as a rebutting defeater.
Taylor offers both an undercutting and a rebutting defeater of the premiss that an actual infinite cannot exist.
Arguments are said to be rebutting if they have contradictory conclusions.
Arguments may compete, rebutting against each other, so a process of argumentation is a natural result of the search for arguments.
To clarify the distinction between negative and positive apologetics, it is helpful to consider the concept of defeaters, especially the distinction between undercutting and rebutting defeaters.
Davis offers a qualified endorsement of both, plausibly rebutting the more familiar objections.
Pollock (1987, 1992) conceptualises the notions of reasons, prima facie reasons, defeaters, rebutting defeaters and undercutting defeaters, in terms of formal logic.
Rebutting this suspicion and establishing a normative argument against privately inflicted criminal sanctions requires characterizing criminal sanctions in a way that is independent of the agent who inflicts these sanctions.
One either acquires reasons for accepting something incompatible with one's initial belief (rebutting defeater) or one loses one's grounds for holding the initial belief (undercutting defeater).
