With no alternative in mind, and unwilling or unable to rethink their basic assumptions, they are forced to defend a notion whose success they can no longer sincerely portray as plausible or even possible.
For example, many defend a notion of the self as a relational, ecological being who is a member of the larger biotic (living, organic, ecological) community.
I realized, the more I struggled, that Mr. Naipaul, in refusing these prompts, was defending a notion of writing that is at war with instantaneousness.
He reviews other philosophical accounts of implementation and computational explanation and defends a notion of representation that is compatible with his mechanistic account and adequate vis a vis the four models discussed earlier.
He reviews other philosophical accounts of implementation and computational explanation and defends a notion of representation that is compatible with his mechanistic account and adequate vis à vis the four models discussed earlier.
When he was defending a notion of permanent value in his mid-nineties "culture war" polemic, "The Culture of Complaint," it wasn't with a sniffy reference to Plato or Dante, but through his direct experience as an amateur carpenter, of the practice of planing, sawing, varnishing, and getting it right.
It takes inspiration from earlier work in this vein by Howard Stein, who has defended a notion of abstract structures in the phenomena that is intended to satisfy the justifiable demands of both realism and instrumentalism.
In the second of these papers Peirce defended a "pragmatic" notion of clear concepts.
Saucedo (manuscript) defends a plural notion of fundamentality, and argues that the plurality of all things is a fundamental plurality, partly to accommodate both gunk and junk.
One of the reasons why it was important for Twardowski to defend an anti-relativistic notion of truth was that relativism jeopardizes the possibility of constructing ethics as a science based on principles (on Twardowski's ethics, see Paczkowska-Łagowska 1977).
Just as the world has feared the oncoming of "peak oil" and tried to defend itself against the day society and machinery grind to a halt — or wars over dwindling resources — we must defend ourselves against a notion of "peak data," where the data powering millions of aspiring companies is so valuable it has to be kept inside walled gardens.
