Many recent pragmatists are doubtful that a defensible form of the maxim can be found.
Structural realism is considered by many realists and antirealists alike as the most defensible form of scientific realism.
We are all implicated and we must all act, deliberately and with urgency - because inclusive capitalism is, in the final instance, the only defensible form of capitalism.
Civil disobedience is generally regarded as more morally defensible than both ordinary offences and other forms of protest such as militant action or coercive violence.
Her use of symbol was nevertheless defensible; she construed art as a "symbolic analogue of emotive life," rendering the "forms of sentient being" into intelligible configurations.
has give the appearing of restoring as defensible & legitimate policy the use of American force-in the form of firepower & limited manpower-to quell domestic rebellions & support governments beseiged by their own people.
This may be defensible, since it trims a hidden subsidy to Italian business (in the form of cheap financing).
In practice, the authors remind us that however the notion of desertification is defined or whether the notion is defensible, "the perception of decision-makers [is] that rangelands are degrading and that some form of intervention or change in practice or policy must be enacted to prevent further desertification".
Recently, this type of IP has appeared in the form of hardware (i.e., Internet of Things/connected devices), open-source technology with defensible communities and advanced software algorithms, including computer vision, machine learning, natural language process and security.
If some lightweight account of semantic values is defensible, we can accept the assumptions of anti-nominalism and Classical Semantics without committing ourselves to any traditional or robust form of platonism.
