This position on property is much different from the native American, natural law, form of individualist anarchism, which defends the inviolability of the private property that has been earned through labor and trade.

## Presenting someone who defends a position poorly as the defender, then refuting that person's arguments — thus giving the appearance that every upholder of that position ( and thus the position itself ) has been defeated.

Landing on the north-west of the island with a small mercenary force, he seizes a strong position on Mount Ercte ( Monte Pellegrino, near Palermo ), and not only successfully defends himself against all attacks, but also carries his raids as far as the coast of southern Italy.

Cavendish defends her position by stating that philosophical terms ought to ease communication of one ’ s thoughts on the subject.

In these, he defends his position on sin and sinlessness, and accuses Augustine of being under the influence of Manicheanism by elevating evil to the same status as God and teaching pagan fatalism as if it were a Christian doctrine.

He defends the basic notion of justice as fairness but attacks the notion that the two principles of justice emerging from the Original position are necessary.

An uncommon secondary sense refers to a speech or writing that defends the speaker or author's position.

In the diagrammed position, the black queen defends against Qb7 and the rook on c8 defends against Rxc5.

* In the game of Quidditch from Harry Potter, a position that defends the goal hoops

Google defends its position by citing their use of email-scanning to the user's benefit.

Discussing a possible variation that could have arisen in that game ( see position at left ), Keene writes that 28. Qxg5 ( when the white queen defends against 28 ... Qxg2 # through Black's queen on g4 ) " defends the mate — an ' X-ray motif ', as Fischer once described it ".

This pamphlet defends Holmes ' position on supporting the Missouri Compromise – the admission of Maine as a free state with the admission of Missouri as a slave state, which was unpopular position in Maine.

The four men debate a series of three topics: ( 1 ) the relative merit of classical drama ( upheld by Crites ) vs. modern drama ( championed by Eugenius ); ( 2 ) whether French drama, as Lisideius maintains, is better than English drama ( supported by Neander, who famously calls Shakespeare " the greatest soul, ancient or modern "); and ( 3 ) whether plays in rhyme are an improvement upon blank verse drama -- a proposition that Neander, despite having defended the Elizabethans, now advances against the skeptical Crites ( who also switches from his original position and defends the blank verse tradition of Elizabethan drama ).

The prince successfully defends his new homeland, but returns all that he borrowed to Iron John before returning to his former position.

At first, he defends his father, but when he is rewarded by the teacher with a position of authority in the class, he quickly accepts the new regime and commits himself to not accepting " wrong thoughts ".

Finally, the book argues that confirmation theory is relevant to debates about scientific realism, and defends a position intermediate between realism and anti-realism on the basis of a view about what having evidence requires.

In her article, " Naturalist Reflections on Knowledge ", Millikan defends the position that the justification of true beliefs through an explanation in accordance with evolution constitutes knowledge.

Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality defends a position he calls " moral objectivism ".

" I am justly indignant with Stephen's obvious and manifest silliness, that he so boasts of his position, and claims that he is the successor of St. Peter on whom were laid the foundations of the Church ; yet he brings in many other rocks, and erects new buildings of many Churches when he defends with his authority the baptism conferred by heretics ; for those who are baptized are without doubt numbered in the Church, and he who approves their baptism affirms that there is among them a Church of the baptized .… Stephen, who declares that he has the Chair of Peter by succession, is excited by no zeal against heretics " ( c. xvii ).

In Conversations with Professor Y ( 1955 ) Céline defends his style, indicating that his heavy use of the ellipsis and his disjointed sentences are an attempt to embody human emotion in written language.

In The Wretched of the Earth ( Les damnés de la terre ), published shortly before Fanon's death in 1961, Fanon defends the right for a colonized people to use violence to struggle for independence, arguing that human beings who are not considered as such shall not be bound by principles that apply to humanity, in their attitude towards the colonizer.

", arguing that science has now provided an answer to the human condition that defends and liberates humans.

# " Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ": Rikki-Tikki the mongoose defends a human family living in India against a pair of cobras.

Nussbaum champions multiculturalism in the context of ethical universalism ( utilitarianism ), defends scholarly inquiry into race, gender, and human sexuality, and further develops the role of literature as narrative imagination into ethical questions.

Libertarian thinker Tibor Machan defends negative liberty as " required for moral choice and, thus, for human flourishing ," claiming that it " is secured when the rights of individual members of a human community to life, to voluntary action ( or to liberty of conduct ), and to property are universally respected, observed, and defended.

MacIntyre's account also defends three further theses: first, that all rational human inquiry is conducted whether knowingly or not from within a tradition ; second, that the incommensurable conceptual schemes of rival traditions do not entail either relativism or perspectivism ; third, that although the arguments of the book are themselves attempts at universally valid insights they are nevertheless given from within a particular tradition ( that of Thomist Aristotelianism ) and that this need not imply any philosophical inconsistency.

Lino defends himself by arguing that the loss of innocence is inevitable and is merely a part of the human experience.

In subsequent episodes he defends his people against various external aggressors, human and superhuman.

An example for this tradition is Rudyard Kipling's short story " Rikki-Tikki-Tavi " ( in The Jungle Book ), in which Rikki-Tikki, a mongoose, defends a human family against a pair of evil cobras.

PEN is also a member of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, a global network of nongovernmental organizations that monitors free expression violations worldwide and defends journalists, writers, human rights activists and Internet users who are persecuted for exercising their right to freedom of expression.

*# The conservative defends irrational traditionalism against human reason and denies people's right to self-control and self-determination.

Whenever monsters and space aliens attack the world, Misaki transforms into Fireman by using the fire-stick, and defends the human race against them.

It defends human rights and calls for the respect of public freedoms and rule of law.

While works such as Susan Zuccotti's Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy ( 2000 ) and Michael Phayer's The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930 – 1965 ( 2000 ) are critical of both Cornwell and Pius XII ; Ronald J. Rychlak's Hitler, the War and the Pope is critical as well but defends Pius XII in light of his access to most recent documents.

Reactionary and fundamentalist movements are unlikely to halt this trend, as the sharia itself defends the right to privacy within the home.

He defends the right of the poor to steal, particularly if they are in need of food, and proposes a graduated income tax in order to limit excessive accumulations of wealth in few hands.

Hemingway wrote of him in 1925: " He defends friends when they are attacked, he gets them into magazines and out of jail.

For example, Grace Eckley argues that Wakean characters are distinct from each other, and defends this with explaining the dual narrators, the " us " of the first paragraph, as well as Shem-Shaun distinctions while Margot Norris argues that the " haracters are fluid and interchangeable ".

These become the center of a medico-legal investigation led by Dr. Thorndyke, who defends the accused whose fingerprint matches that on the paper, after the diamonds are stolen.

Among his own productions are a treatise, De la morale des pères, a history of ancient treaties contained in the Supplément au grand corps diplomatique, and the curious Traité du jeu ( 1709 ), in which he defends the morality of games of chance.

Michael Frede, however, defends a different interpretation, according to which Sextus does allow beliefs, so long as they are not derived by reason, philosophy or speculation ; a skeptic may, for example, accept common opinions in the skeptic's society.

Jesus subsequently defends his belief in resurrection against Sadduceean resistance, stating “ and as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the story about the bush, how God said to him ‘ I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob ?’ He is God not of the dead, but of the living ; you are quite wrong .” The tone and content of the passage are indicative of theological and sociopolitical dispute.

He defends external acts of honour towards icons, arguing that there are " different kinds of worship " and that the honour shown to icons differs entirely from the adoration of God.

Thus, by his Dancing Qualia Argument, Chalmers defends his view that phenomenological properties are organizationally invariant.

In the White Horse Dialogue ( 白馬論, Báimǎ Lùn ), one interlocutor ( sometimes called the " sophist ") defends the truth of the statement " White horses are not horses ," while the other interlocutor ( sometimes called the " objector ") disputes the truth of this statement.

However, the " sophist " in the White Horse Dialogue defends the statement under the interpretation, " White horses are not identical with horses.

Adult numbats are solitary and territorial ; an individual male or female establishes a territory of up to 1. 5 square kilometres ( 370 acres ) early in life, and defends it from others of the same sex.

Later, when all three men are crucified, the good thief defends Jesus from Gestas ' insults and asks to be forgiven for his own crimes.

In, Jesus defends himself against a charge of blasphemy by stating: " Have I not said that ye are gods?

* In, Jesus defends himself against a charge of blasphemy by stating: " Have I not said that ye are gods?

MEMRI responds to criticism by saying that the media had a tendency to whitewash statements of Arab leaders, and regularly defends its translations as being representative of actual ME viewpoints, even when the translations themselves are disputed: " MEMRI has never claimed to ' represent the view of the Arabic media ', but rather to reflect, through our translations, general trends which are widespread and topical.