Sentence examples for philosophical contention from inspiring English sources

The use of cattle as commodities has been a point of philosophical contention throughout history, particularly regarding the raising of animals for food.

In effect, it's a matter of philosophical contention whether all evasion and avoidance is always bad, or if handing over cash and not asking too many questions is the consumer equivalent of parking on a double-yellow line.

The reader may wish to consult Ryckman (2005, 171 173), who argues "that a philosophical contention, indeed, phenomenological one, underlies the stated mathematical reasons that kept him [Weyl] for a number of years from concurring with Cartan's "moving frame" approach to differential geometry".

Leaving aside legitimate debate about the intellectual history of western civilization that Strauss sketches, problems remain with many of his philosophical contentions.

Mill's two volume work constituted a detailed and highly critical examination of Hamilton's philosophical contentions (as well as his excursions into logic) largely from the point of view of empiricism in general, and empirical psychology in particular.

Earlier, in his (1932a) contribution to the protocol sentence controversy, Carnap's treatment of observation was based on the Thesis of Metalogic, the idea that all philosophical contentions (which are not nonsense) are metalinguistic claims about linguistic expressions and their logical (particularly syntactical) properties (Carnap 1932a, 435n).

A philosophical argument there.

This doctrine of Universal Hylomorphism emerges as a central theological and philosophical point of contention between Augustinian Franciscans (who embrace it) and Aristotelian Dominicans (who reject it).

My contention is that the chief philosophical questions are those that grow up without leaving home, important questions that remain unanswered when all the facts are in.

The attraction of that contention for analytic philosophers was that it seemed to provide a solution to the problems arising from the skeptical tradition that Hume himself, in his other philosophical role, had done so much to reinvigorate.

3. In "Free Enterprise in America" (1976) Nozick offered a nicely integrated statement of the core historical and economic contentions that complement ASU's philosophical claims.