Among those proposed are declaring a standpoint sacrosanct because that breaks the rule against the freedom to criticize points of view, and evading the burden of proof which breaks the rule that you must defend your standpoint if asked to do so (see van Eemeren 2010, 194).
"Some people defended this standpoint; others would wish to reject it," Mr. Van Rompuy said, referring to the question of whether treaty changes would be required.
"Is Mr Osborne suggesting that women need to be teetotal in public places in order to protect themselves?" The barrister, who lives in Somerset, apparently defended his standpoint in an interview with the Daily Mirror which quoted him as saying: "The protection in law that they have got seems to me to be twofold.
Instead, we are asking ourselves how we should deliberate in public, which types of reasons we are entitled to refer to in the course of defending our standpoint to others.
But one idea being floated by Congressional negotiators, as described in an article by The New York Times's Jonathan Weisman on Thursday, is hard to defend from the standpoint of rational public policy making.
"It's about equipping the Afghan air force with what they need to ensure that they have the capabilities from an air standpoint to defend themselves," Mr. Little said.
But it has been defended from the standpoint of realism (for instance, Dupré 1993 and Chakravartty 2011).
Soon afterwards Weyl embraced Brouwer's mathematical intuitionism; in the early 1920s he published a number of papers elaborating on and defending the intuitionistic standpoint in the foundations of mathematics.
Defending his moral standpoint appeared to agitate Miguel, who curtly ended our communications with a final message.
From a sheer political standpoint, defending an oil company that has caused a massive amount of economic and environmental damage along America's coast seems like a tricky proposition -- even for a candidate from a landlocked state.
"I find most of the material that I defend distasteful from a personal standpoint," he said.
