Sentence examples for contentious assumptions from inspiring English sources
The CPS consultation is well intentioned, but rests on some contentious assumptions.
And these estimates, which rest on contentious assumptions and calculations, are necessarily tentative since the contracts are so long.
Surfacing the contentious assumptions clarified what we needed to study more thoroughly before making an investment plan to build the professional services firm of the future.
Such an argument may be more or less direct, going via more or less contentious assumptions about mental content.
If these are compelling reasons, then they may count as arguments in favor of the centrality of formality and necessary truth-preservation; but if they rest on disputable, contentious assumptions, then the analysis may provide elements for a critical evaluation of each of these two components as truly constitutive of the concept of logical consequence.
Therefore, the date estimates reported are based on the contentious assumptions that (i) rates are constant at the third position of two-fold redundant codons across the genome, (ii) the fossil calibration points are correct, and (iii) the mammalian phylogeny used is correct.
The text of the EU deal claims that almost all refugees can be returned to Turkey, on the contentious assumption that it is a safe country for refugees; Greece's asylum officials will decide over the next few days and weeks whether this claim has legal basis.
Buller thinks that evolutionary psychologists overemphasize design and that they make the contentious assumption that with respect to the traits they are interested in, evolution is finished, rather than ongoing.
Moreover, Ridley does not set out the supposedly obvious ontology of music, but rather makes substantive and contentious ontological assumptions throughout his argument.
While a similar assumption about the relationship between the elegance (or otherwise) of the analysis of knowledge and the value of the analysandum is commonplace in the contemporary epistemological literature see, for example, Zagzebski (1999) and Williamson (2000: chapter 1)—this assumption is contentious.
