Sentence examples for contentious thoughts from inspiring English sources

When constant surveillance, or the threat thereof, systematically chills and dissuades people from experimenting with new ideas and expressing contentious thoughts, privacy is no longer a personal luxury.

Contentious and thought-provoking conversations about this subject have permeated the recent efforts of the National Association for the Education of Young Children to update its position statement on technology expected early next year.

It's one of the contentious lines of thought that we'll all probably be talking about in the years ahead.

His new book The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science was described by Sarah Bakewell in the FT as "compelling, sometimes contentious, and always thought-provoking", in particular the argument that the Greek thinker "can be considered the first true scientist by virtue of two great things: his attention to the world as it presents itself … and his drive to understand causes".

Food for thought for our contentious age, when discussion of perfectly solvable problems seems to turn inflammatory so easily.

He contrasted this divine wisdom with the contentious distortion of Scripture by scholastic thought, and repudiated the arrogant rationalism and a priori proofs of the moderni, that is, the medieval Aristotelians.

Second, the dependence of phenomenal consciousness on rational, self-reflective thought is a particularly strong and contentious claim (although it has current defenders, discussed below).

If Mr. Abdul Rauf ever entertained thoughts of moving the planned center to a less contentious site — as he has admitted in interviews — Mr. Bloomberg's support for Park51 has since made that unthinkable.

Our latest thought-starter explores what might be the most contentious and core question out there about guns in America: Do they actually make people and their loved ones safer?

The contentious paper, in the journal Science, argues we are not very good at enjoyable, recreational thought.

Nothing contentious.