Whether that line can logically be defended was the question in a Supreme Court argument today on the constitutionality of Arizona's death penalty law, which the court upheld in 1990.
If somebody has to apply and transpose legislation in accordance with this principle, then logically they must also be able to defend their prerogatives and rights.
Then there are those who deplore Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism and homophobia who simultaneously defend the right of creative figures, and logically anyone else, to cause offence.
I am known as a human rights activist, which, of course, doesn't logically fit with me defending Saddam.
Early criticisms of Landauer's principle tended to focus on the claim that logically reversible operations could be implemented in a thermodynamically reversible fashion, and instead to defend the position of von Neumann, Gabor and Brillouin (see the references in Landauer's response (Porod 1988) and in (Bennett 2003) for examples of this debate).
Defend, attack, defend, attack...etc...etc
Others defended the traditional attributes as logically coherent, both individually and in their relationship to one another, and as allowing for divine awareness of the created universe, God's activity in history, and divine sympathy with human suffering.
This in turn suggests that the other two parts of Kant's theory can be logically detached from his transcendental idealism and defended independently of it.
Second, Hartshorne frequently uses the history of philosophy to see which of the logically possible options made available by position matrices have been defended before so as to avail ourselves of the insights of others in the effort to examine in detail the consistency of these positions and to assess their consequences.
