Looking beyond his own works, Aristotle's categorialism has engaged the attention of such diverse philosophers as Plotinus, Porphyry, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Brentano and Heidegger (to mention just a few), who have variously embraced, defended, modified or rejected its central contentions.
Mr. Horgan's own examples from psychology undermine his central contention.
But his purpose in the speech, watched by millions across the country, was to build a rhetorical, logical, political basis upon which to found his central contention: the two-state solution with Palestine is in Israel's own vital, existential interest:Peace is necessary.
Last week, as Portugal became the third country in Europe, after Greece and Ireland, to petition the European Union for a financial bailout, Mr. Osborne was vocal in underscoring his central contention as a deficit hawk: that in this new debt-averse era, no country has the luxury of delaying the painful steps needed to balance government books.
To grasp what Freud meant by this fear, it is necessary to understand one of his central contentions.
Christopher T. Dunn, the associate legal director of the civil liberties group, said the central contention of its lawsuit was that the billboard was not lobbying; it mentioned no bill and encouraged no one to attempt to influence legislators.
If the basic elements of the story have a familiar ring, it is because Clark's central contention — that the Bush Administration used September 11th as a pretext to attack Saddam — has been part of the public debate, much discussed in many publications and broadcasts, since well before the Iraq war.
But it did nothing to bolster the Republicans' central contention that senior administration officials must have known of the targeting in 2012 and kept it under wraps during the presidential campaign.
Longer term, it is laying a foundation for a central contention of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: that Israel must retain territory in the West Bank as a buffer against the enhanced threat it fears may arrive with a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
