Sentence examples for defensible concept from inspiring English sources
In so doing we recognize not only the need for a defensible concept of death, because the current use of WBD rests on the faulty premises that a functioning brain is required for integrative life and that any functions that are not regulated by the brain are necessarily unintegrated, but also the need for clinical confidence.
The empirically defensible methods of concept clarification x-phi offer apply straightforwardly to epistemic concepts.
A defensible method for concept evaluation and determination is therefore still needed.
For years, on a settlement hilltop, he would hang a map on a fence and show to visitors (including George W. Bush two years ago) his concept of a defensible Israel next to a contiguous state including virtually all the Palestinians on about half the West Bank.
This article discusses the background, concepts, and development of defensible space, highlighting the criticisms and increasing popularity of these ideas.
It doesn't matter hugely whether we call that 'rational' (it is not rational in the strong sense, but it is in the weak sense)—what matters is whether this weak sense of rational is sufficient to satisfy our concept of moral choice as being objectively defensible.
With its insistence on using scientific methods to analyze empirical sources of information about concepts, x-phi complements Carnap's (1955) data-driven methodology and embodies a key element in a defensible contemporary alternative to traditional conceptual analysis.
In an approving 1987 account, the design writer Ken Baynes claimed: "Ulster is a laboratory for the way housing design may go in the future … as people of different religious persuasions prefer not to live together, the concept of 'defensible space' has a sharp and real significance.
Were our actions defensible?
This reluctance is defensible.
