Sentence examples for reasoning to defend from inspiring English sources

He went on to use Muʿtazilite methods of reasoning to defend popular ideas such as the eternality and literal truth of the Qurʾān and the centrality of Muhammad's Sunnah as conveyed by the Hadith.

Even more than attitudes toward women, however, the object of DeWitt's satire is the oily, sophistic reasoning used to defend such views.

They are given the chance not only to present their reasoning but also to defend it against their more prominent Darwinian critics, including the biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins and the philosophers of science Philip Kitcher and Michael Ruse.

This type of reasoning is difficult to defend for objects other than artistic and literary creations.

However, if one accepts this line of reasoning, the allegedly vast moral difference between continuous deep sedation and euthanasia has yet to be explained, since the same line of reasoning can be used to defend euthanasia, at least if there is no morally relevant difference between the permanent loss of consciousness and death (which, we think, has been forcefully argued elsewhere [ 14]).

Her public speeches have developed a distinctive line of reasoning, adopting common law principles to defend the Human Rights Act and attack the government's expansion of secret court hearings.

Thanks to what we've done in the past, no one who buys a Hyundai has to defend their reasoning.

19 Australian regulations recognize that harm can result from providing exploratory results and now require investigators to submit a plan to the EC to defend their reasoning if they intend to provide research results.

This suspicion was only enhanced by the fact that few conservative commentators even attempted to defend the legal reasoning of the decision; instead, they focused on what they considered the rough justice of the outcome.

As an alternative, the justices could rule that the supporters of Proposition 8 were not entitled to sue over the law; if state officials declined to defend it, the reasoning goes, those who pursued the case have no standing to sue.

Bieber has attempted to defend himself by reasoning "I'm young and I make mistakes".