The Demented Mrs. Grabit thought experiment is intended to show that a version of the defeasibility theory is unfounded.

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The Demented Mrs. Grabit thought experiment challenges the defeasibility theory by presenting a scenario where the theory's criteria for knowledge are met, yet intuitively it seems incorrect to say that the person knows the proposition in question, thus showing a version of the defeasibility theory to be unfounded.