Sentence examples for contested thesis from inspiring English sources

The historiographical dimension of Scholem's reconstruction of Judaism is perhaps his most contested thesis.

It is a hotly contested thesis, however, raising concerns about not only the dating of geological time periods but also about the politics and power structures [End Page 231] in the world today.

The Cold War – even history itself, if you interpret Francis Fukuyama's contested thesis in the triumphalist fashion that the historian himself disavows – came to an end.

The latter argued a thesis, contested by some leftwing scholars, that the republicans had been cynically exploited by Soviet Russia, which made them pay for second-rate weapons with gold.

While some authors directly contested the identity thesis as such (see, for example, Abelson 1970 and Epstein 1973; further the replies in Grünbaum 1972 and Nathanson 1972), others urged that Feigl should clarify his conception of the relation of phenomenal predicates and "raw feels".

This thesis has been much contested, but it holds up remarkably well.

The principal fallacy in argumentation is the petitio principii ("begging of the question"), in which the speaker presupposes that the audience accepts a thesis that actually is contested by them, even implicitly (See also logic: The critique of forms of reasoning).

Its basic thesis - though still vigorously contested - became so much a part of the framework of later thinking that it is difficult to recall what a bombshell it was at the time.

The result of applying the premises is a firm list (contested, of course, by others) of ten theses held by Socrates, all of which are incompatible with the corresponding ten theses held by Plato (1991, 47 49).

This thesis, known as "explanatory nationalism," is highly contested.

In many cases Mr. Kagan seems to be referring to Francis Fukuyama's frequently disputed thesis that liberal democracy will inevitably triumph around the world, or the psychologist Steven Pinker's also contested argument that violence has fallen drastically over thousands of years, but he does not always identify them or their followers by name.