Sentence examples for problematic theory from inspiring English sources

"This was a very problematic theory in a lot of respects because it ignored the actual social conditions and circumstances".

"The FBI has a problematic theory of radicalization, where someone goes from speaking out about an issue to becoming violent," says the ACLU's Mike German, a former FBI agent, who was speaking about the FBI generally and not about the Sheikh or Conley case specifically.

Nevertheless, they claim, they can enjoy the benefits of using these seemingly problematic theories.

How problematic the theory has become is further illustrated by two recent scandals involving counterfeit vintage prints by Man Ray and Lewis Hine, and by the Walker Evans retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum, carefully stocked with old prints when newer and, in some cases, finer ones were readily available.

"While the notion of historicity has become ever more problematic for theory," he says, "at the same time for historiography and its own methodological self-awareness the idea of history as a unitary process is rapidly dissolving" (Vattimo 1988 [1985], 6).

However it should be no less problematic in theory to use MeSH terms than other indexing terms such as JCR subject categories which have previously been used successfully in bibliometric analysis[ 45].

Firstly, Field's argument is carefully formulated so as to avoid any appeal to problematic causal theories of knowledge.

The emphasized phrase is problematic: while theories are often supported by a vast body of evidence, they are not always.

In this section, we will review the internal problematic of causal theories by examining how each theory fares on our battery of test cases (I)–(IV), along with other objections from time to time.

Even after taking into account these restrictions, the existence of the United States is still problematic for the theory: a fifth of the world's GDP comes from a country that is both religious and innovative.

(These exclusions alone would make Austin's theory problematic for most modern readers).