0 If a theory or argument is untenable, it cannot be supported or defended against criticism.
If three people in four no longer support the government, isn't this an untenable situation?
1 not able to be supported or defended against criticism, or no longer able to continue:
A successful military campaign may require giving up some tactically untenable territory.
The option of maintaining the hospitals for any significant strategic period was simply untenable.
Today, however, such an assertion is wholly untenable.
The structuring of clan society in the area would, thus, become untenable in practical terms, with its infrastructure undermined.
The first is the recognition that the failure of foundationalism in philosophy makes any attempt to claim a monopoly on truth, methodology etc. untenable.
Treating wild living resources as has been done in the past is untenable for the long term.
The unpredictability in science in general entails that the technocratic ideal of the discovery of an optimal solution to social decisions is untenable.
The critique of class and other grand concepts was located in a world in which meta-narratives were becoming increasingly untenable.
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