0 able to be protected from attack, or able to be supported by argument:
1 able to be supported by argument, esp. when criticized:
He’s presenting a plan that is morally defensible and politically realistic.
Either specification is defensible, since both use plausible measures of democracy and a plausible set of control variables.
It does not aim to reproduce existing categories of legal thought but to refashion them in the light of a defensible metaphysics or politics.
They offer several ethically defensible solutions to the case by balancing respect for persons, honesty, and fairness.
These volumes offer much substance for a defensible answer to this vital question.
The elimination of the concept of truth is neither defensible in itself, nor is it required to defend pluralism.
In other words, democratic responsibility requires that policy decisions are clearly defensible as being prudent and in the public interest.
This position is not defensible if one is serious about using such theory as a foundation for scientific work on human behavior.
Each budgetary approach offers a standard: the notion of a defensible standard of income adequacy for minimally acceptable living requirements for specified populations.
