Sentence examples for controversial premises from inspiring English sources

The idea is that the law should not use controversial premises about the good in order to make law.

6. Rosenberg's argument contains several controversial premises, such as the need for strict laws in biological explanation and the distinction between molecular and functional biology (for criticisms, see Love 2007, Love et al. 2008).

An argument as elaborate as this one obviously depends upon a number of controversial premises about the best, most realistic way to help the world's poor and the likely future conduct of wealthy liberal democracies.

Despite a number of its controversial premises and in line with the traditions of then Soviet science, Snezhnevsky's hypothesis has immediately acquired the status of dogma which was later overcome in other disciplines but firmly stuck in psychiatry.

The show took the controversial premise to its worst-case conclusion.

The most controversial premise in the argument is premise (ii).

Mackie's objection relies on the highly controversial premise that moral judgements necessarily are motivating and as we have seen the non-naturalist might reasonably just deny that premise (that was the first of the three replies discussed above).

Now, a Massachusetts company is convinced that these microscopic cylinders are also key to conceiving a baby, and it has persuaded several groups of physicians outside the United States to test that controversial premise in women with fertility problems.

We might still want to say that the parents of such a child acted irresponsibly, assuming the controversial premise that the risks of harm were indeed high, but we cannot do so on the ground that the reproductive arrangement harmed the child, who owed her very existence to it.

Cordemoy is also known for a rather distinctive argument for why bodies are not real causes, one that employs the controversial premise that the motion of a body can be continued only by the causal agent that initiated it (Discernement 135 36; cf. Nadler 2005, 42).

This is sure to be a controversial premise.