Defeasible reasoning

Defeasible reasoning - Reasoning that is rationally compelling, though not deductively valid. Article “Defeasible reasoning” in English Wikipedia has 15.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 1 references and 9 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 5.23 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Defeasible reasoning”, its content was written by 62 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 96 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 62 times in English Wikipedia and cited 93 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #69299 in March 2020
• Global: #175164 in February 2017

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #363654 in October 2014
• Global: #555445 in October 2009

There are 7 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Defeasible reasoning		15.7
2	Chinese (zh) 可废止推理		7.5034
3	French (fr) Raisonnement révisable		7.444
4	Persian (fa) استدلال قابل بازنگری		6.6615
5	Arabic (ar) الاستدلال الاستدحاضي (قابل للدحض)		4.7578
6	Greek (el) Αναιρέσιμη λογική		4.3824
7	Portuguese (pt) Raciocínio revogável		0.2935

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Defeasible reasoning" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defeasible reasoning		306 087
2	Chinese (zh) 可废止推理		22 559
3	Portuguese (pt) Raciocínio revogável		12 243
4	Greek (el) Αναιρέσιμη λογική		4 819
5	French (fr) Raisonnement révisable		2 916
6	Persian (fa) استدلال قابل بازنگری		2 578
7	Arabic (ar) الاستدلال الاستدحاضي (قابل للدحض)		16

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Defeasible reasoning" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Defeasible reasoning		1 736
2	Chinese (zh) 可废止推理		72
3	Portuguese (pt) Raciocínio revogável		23
4	French (fr) Raisonnement révisable		21
5	Greek (el) Αναιρέσιμη λογική		18
6	Arabic (ar) الاستدلال الاستدحاضي (قابل للدحض)		16
7	Persian (fa) استدلال قابل بازنگری		14

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Defeasible reasoning" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Defeasible reasoning		62
2	French (fr) Raisonnement révisable		9
3	Portuguese (pt) Raciocínio revogável		8
4	Chinese (zh) 可废止推理		7
5	Persian (fa) استدلال قابل بازنگری		6
6	Greek (el) Αναιρέσιμη λογική		3
7	Arabic (ar) الاستدلال الاستدحاضي (قابل للدحض)		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Defeasible reasoning" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) الاستدلال الاستدحاضي (قابل للدحض)		3
2	Greek (el) Αναιρέσιμη λογική		0
3	English (en) Defeasible reasoning		0
4	Persian (fa) استدلال قابل بازنگری		0
5	French (fr) Raisonnement révisable		0
6	Portuguese (pt) Raciocínio revogável		0
7	Chinese (zh) 可废止推理		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Defeasible reasoning" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Defeasible reasoning		62
2	Persian (fa) استدلال قابل بازنگری		11
3	Chinese (zh) 可废止推理		10
4	French (fr) Raisonnement révisable		5
5	Portuguese (pt) Raciocínio revogável		4
6	Greek (el) Αναιρέσιμη λογική		1
7	Arabic (ar) الاستدلال الاستدحاضي (قابل للدحض)		0

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic الاستدلال الاستدحاضي (قابل للدحض)
el	Greek Αναιρέσιμη λογική
en	English Defeasible reasoning
fa	Persian استدلال قابل بازنگری
fr	French Raisonnement révisable
pt	Portuguese Raciocínio revogável
zh	Chinese 可废止推理

Best Rank

English: #363654 10.2014

Global: #555445 10.2009

Best Rank

English: #69299 03.2020

Global: #175164 02.2017

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