"I'm not terribly interested in the beauty-contest notion, even as applied to philosophy," he says.
There are some scholars who contest the notion that race is neither genetic nor biological, but they are not interviewed.
Few people in Turkey contest the notion that something resembling a deep state existed, but its scale, its nature, and its life span are not entirely clear.
In keeping with past form, Perrson took to Twitter to contest the notion that he is "dedicated to partying his money away".
I suspect there is a cadre of cinephiles who will contest the notion that a loud midnight audience could ever trump the experience of watching a serious film with hundreds of people sitting quietly captivated and engaged.
Shortly after the combative presidential debate on Tuesday, Mitt Romney's campaign began running a striking new commercial that uses a former Obama supporter to contest the notion that Mr. Romney's positions on abortion and contraception are "extreme".
Despite the efforts of some evangelicals to combine conservative theology with progressive politics — or at least contest the notion that Jesus opposed the minimum wage — those evangelicals with the most political clout have helped turn the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt into a pseudo-religion with its own Holy Trinity: the flag, the traditional family and the free market.
Immediately after declaring that "beneficial and burdensome racial classifications are equally valid," he questions whether the racial classification practiced by the University of Michigan Law School is in fact beneficial: "I must contest the notion that the law school's discrimination benefits those admitted as a result of it".
"I must contest the notion that the law school's discrimination benefits those admitted as a result of it," he said at the start of a remarkable series of paragraphs, most without footnotes, statistics or outside references, about the pain and stigma suffered by recipients of affirmative action.
And of course, it's hard to contest the notion that Nokia knows how to put together a solid device.
