Sentence examples for defend this view from inspiring English sources

Although it is possible to hold that the universe is indeterministic and that human actions are nevertheless determined, few contemporary philosophers defend this view.

(Davidson (1967) and Armstrong (1997) each defend this view albeit in different ways).

It must have been difficult to defend this view against the Platonic-Aristotelian position.

Austin is sometimes read as seeking to defend this view of performatives.

(Researchers in the social studies of science usually try to defend this view by appealing to the Duhem-Quine's thesis and Kuhnian considerations about incommensurability).

Some argue that these intentional relations and intentional transitives are analysable or reducible to propositional formulations (see Larson (2003) for an attempt to defend this view of intensional transitives; and Sainsbury (2010) for a less radical defence).

The same philosopher who denies freedom freely chooses to present conference papers defending this view.

In "The Holocaust in American Life" (Houghton Mifflin, 1999) the historian Peter Novick defended this view, arguing that a "perverse sacralization" of the Holocaust had taken place; he found it "deeply offensive" that the Holocaust had been regarded as a unique, Jewish event.

Throughout his life, Linus Pauling (1901 1994) defended this view.

Lewis defended this view in his most significant book, On the Plurality of Worlds.

(Chaudenson 1992, for instance, defends this view about the origins of French creoles).