The merit schema makes it essentially contestable what counts as funny, good, or honorable, whereas what counts as red is not essentially contestable or often contested.
The assertion that the origins of the conflict stretch back considerably further is not controversial or contestable.
Thus, if the insured made a material misrepresentation when the policy was originally obtained, and this misrepresentation is not discovered until after the contestable period, beneficiaries may still receive the value of the policy so long as the premiums are maintained.
Although wounding is rarely witnessed during observations, there is a strong implication that fragmented matrilines are targeted with more severe aggression because their social position is not stable, and is therefore contestable.
All this anger seems to stem from one blithely repeated but actually fairly contestable assertion: an emoji is not a word, and so the "Face with Tears of Joy" emoji should not be allowed to be the Word of the Year 2015, and all this is very important.
What makes ours a "secular" age, he writes, is not that it is defined by unbelief, but rather that belief is contestable and contested.
Something this slight and contestable may decide the gold-medal game, and that, I think, is not a bad thing.
To be sure, the definition of what's fair (as opposed to what's cheating) isn't any less contestable than the notion of what's normal.
