Sentence examples for defends the view from inspiring English sources

In Part 1, The Principles of Practical Reason, Korsgaard defends the view that the principles of practical reason are constitutive principles of action.

Eagleman defends the view that conscious processes represent just a fraction of the mind, that most of its properties are discoverable only by the experimental observation of neural activity.

Arguing for a revival of the invisible hand of free international trade and global capital, eminent economist Deepak Lal vigorously defends the view that statist attempts to ameliorate the impact of markets threaten global economic progress and stability.

Against a long, skeptical tradition in philosophy, Silins defends the view that our visual experiences are like the pain, not like the emissions test: they can directly justify our beliefs about the external world without our needing to rely on further beliefs.

As Jules L. Coleman, another former student who is a professor of philosophy at Yale University Law School, put it, "Feinberg defends the view that the state's power can be employed against individuals primarily only if their actions are likely to be harmful to others and not, for example, if they are merely offensive or morally repugnant to a powerful majority".

Collins also defends the view against attacks addressed to the concept of memory involved.

David Rosenthal has defended the view that the HOT must actually be occurring at the time of consciousness, while Peter Carruthers has argued for a more modest view according to which the agent must simply be disposed to have the relevant HOT.

To the Editor: Mark Oppenheimer says the Roman Catholic critics of Marc A. Thiessen defend the view that "waterboarding is torture, and that Roman Catholics are not supposed to do it".

When Clive Bell wrote of art as "significant form," he really meant to defend the view, first, that form is the essence of art and, second, that form must be understood and therefore understandable (i.e., significant).

The exchange Wednesday was pretty intense, with Pruitt seeking to defend the view that humans may contribute to climate change "in some manner," and Sanders insisting that the science says a great deal more than that.

I defended the view that statins have saved countless lives.