Sentence examples for theory defend from inspiring English sources

Conflict with vehement critics turns out to play a key role, with the Hummer owner casting himself or herself as a "moral protagonist" who must, according to this theory, "defend sacrosanct virtues and ideals from the transgressive actions of an immoral adversary".

I wrote about the limitations of the theory — defending myself, if you like — and then ended the communication with the statement that anyone who tries to use this theory to determine the angular dependence to a high degree of accuracy does so at his own peril.

In the theory defended by the contemporary Australian philosopher David Armstrong, universals are perhaps not quite as immanent as they are according to the bundle theorists, but they nevertheless obey an Aristotelian "principle of instantiation," insofar as no universal can exist without instances.

It is perhaps surprising to find a 'five elements' theory defended still in the seventeenth century.

(This a simplified version of the theory defended in Lewis 1975).

A leading example is the theory defended by Evan Thompson, the Ecological View of Colors.

The type version of the identity theory (defended by Smart (1959) and Place (1956) among others) identifies types of mental events/states/processes with types of physical events/states/processes.

The token identity theory (defended by Kim (1966) and Davidson (1980) among others) maintains that every token mental event is some token physical event or other, but it denies that a type match-up must be expected.

Here we'll discuss three versions: St. Anselm's debt-cancellation theory, the penal substitution theory defended by John Calvin and many others in the reformed tradition, and the penitential substitution theory, attributed to Thomas Aquinas and defended most recently by Eleonore Stump and Richard Swinburne.

More recent forms of S-naturalism, associated with a revival of a kind of natural law theory defended by David Brink and Michael Moore (among others), applies the "new" or "causal" theory of reference to questions of legal interpretation, including the interpretation of moral concepts as they figure in legal rules.

The valence theory defends rather a differential implication of the left and the right hemisphere to process stimuli depending on their emotional valence.