Sentence examples for famous contention from inspiring English sources

What, then, of Kant's famous contention that endorsing transcendental realism commits one to empirical idealism (A368-9)?

In another famous contention of the work that "a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed" (III.13, 1283b42 1284a1, often translated as "ruling and being ruled in turn"), the Greek dictum of citizenship among equals is presented as an analytical truth, leaving open how such equality is to be conceived in practice.

Echoing Arthur C. Clarke's famous contention that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, in order for Watson's magic to appear in the form of one or more thriving markets, a bit of cultural tweaking are probably necessary.

The Politics begins in what Schofield, as seen above, would call rational-model mode, offering an analysis of the teleological ends of life and the human capacity for speech which together support one of its two most famous contentions: that "it is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal" (I.2, 1253a2 3).

It calls to mind the famous if somewhat elastic contention by a character of John Updike, Baker's literary forebear, that "a man, in America, is a failed boy".

Chief Justice Roberts is famous for his faux-tautological contention that "the way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race".

It is what golfers dream of, to be in contention as those famous roars reverberate around the pines.

Henry VI, Part 1 and Henry VI, Part 2 had been published in quarto in shortened form and under different titles (The First Part of the Contention Betwixt the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York) but were not used in this form by Heminge and Condell for the 1623 Folio.

The objection he is concerned to refute is Rawls' famous "separateness of persons" charge, the contention that utilitarianism fails to take seriously the distinction between persons, because it controversially jettisons interpersonal distributive principles in exactly the way we uncontroversially jettison them intrapersonally (Rawls 1971, 22 27).

(Did Aaron Alexis want to be famous? That seems like a weird contention).

A famous study sought to challenge this contention, tracking 515 persons who were prevented from committing suicide at the Golden Gate Bridge.