Knowledge is particular and perspectival, and as such is always contestable. |
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So that deciding contestable moral questions by reference to what any particular person would think about them loses its validity. |
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In theology practically every statement on a major issue is bound to be contestable and controversial, and God is the biggest issue of all. |
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But, commensurately, we have a high responsibility to science itself as an open system of contestable evidence. |
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It does have a number of contestable issues in it, and the member has alerted the House to some of them. |
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Firstly, there is a contestable question of fact about historic significance. |
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Except that we received much more challenging and contestable papers that opened up the question of culture by showing it rather than saying it. |
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Policing is becoming not only central to our understanding of citizenship, it is becoming a contestable political issue as never before. |
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Romantic appeal aside, many of Mitchell's claims are contestable, and deserve to be challenged. |
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What counts in analogical comparison is, within limits, inherently contestable. |
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All of a sudden the policies they thought the Libs could never contest have become fully contestable and electoral dynamite. |
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Every tackle, every throw-in, every debatable decision is furiously contestable so that the hero can redeem United's followers. |
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Public services have become contestable in an open market and many functions have been outsourced or are now delivered in partnership with the private sector. |
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However, matters of clarity are, ironically, often contestable. |
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At the same time, some feminists have sought to impose a particular social vision, even though their own views are highly controversial and contestable. |
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To postulate the reality of the latter is in fact very dubious, because it relies on a contestable empirical claim that simply cannot be sustained. |
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Although children cannot be transferred without parental permission, the validity of their consent is contestable. |
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It is a political document, full of contestable characterizations, but it provides some useful specifics to consider. |
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Evidence of asbestos injury, apart form mesothelioma and asbestosis, is heavily contestable. |
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Almost any answer to such questions is as contestable as any other. |
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The fact is that the policy advice I provide is now contestable. |
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It is in part because of the existence of Community schemes for regional assistance, and because the proper boundary of regional assistance is itself a contestable issue. |
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Furthermore, as exemplified by the Megabus entry in Britain, the market seems to remain sufficiently contestable in terms of intramodal competition. |
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To generalise on this basis that all present participles used for adjectival periphrasis are adjectivised, is contestable, to say the least. |
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Some said he was the greatest of his time but with the amount of talent around that view was contestable. |
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