Sentence examples for views defensible from inspiring English sources

Even though it is part of our everyday practice, is this approach to deliberating about what is right and finding justification for our views defensible?

Goldberg (2013) agrees but has argued that a philosopher who knows there are "epistemic peers" on the opposite side of an issue can still appropriately adopt an attitude of regarding her own view as defensible because that attitude does not imply that the person believes her view is correct.

Isn't this radical view just as defensible as the more mainstream view?

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible.

In the early years after 1944, it was a defensible view.

No one has ever believed illegal drug use could be eliminated, but there was a defensible view that prohibition could prevent more harm than it caused.

On this view, "a morally defensible and politically viable conception of autonomy for an era of global feminism" must be agnostic about the content of women's choices as long as they do not close off autonomy (205).

Whether or not this view is finally defensible, the point here is just that such a Pyrrhonian compromise is available and attractive to those who want to avoid dogmatic moral skepticism but see no way to refute it.

Whether or not that represents a reasonable account of the aims of Kumārila and other Mīmāṃsakas, it is surely a defensible view at least that such ideological effects were among the upshots of Mīmāṃsaka influence.

Still the view is not defensible without a compelling institutional answer to the question of how to ensure that others are genuinely pursuing the means to achieve the aims specified by citizens.

All things being equal, trying to sway different constituencies to one's electoral point of view is certainly defensible, but is this really the best use of resources at this point?