Associations to the word «Defeater»
Wiktionary
DEFEATER, noun. One who defeats.
DEFEATER, noun. (logic) (philosophy) a belief which, if proved to be true, would imply outright or indirectly that another belief were false.
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.