The most powerful scholarly establishments – whether of Christian priests, Confucian mandarins or communist ideologues – placed unity above truth.
"It's risky," he acknowledges, "to ask, in a scholarly way, whether acts of appeasing a rival might not sometimes be a good thing.
Aspin has no theories as to its authorship, but he brings up another point of scholarly contention: whether "Harris's List" was actually soft-core erotic fiction, merely served up in the guise of a practical guide.
The Reformation presents the historian with an acute instance of the general problem of scholarly interpretation namely, whether events are shaped primarily by individuals or by the net of historical circumstances enmeshing them.
Comparative studies are an essential component of all scholarly analyses, whether the topic under study is human society, fine art, paleontology, or chemistry; the similarities and differences found in the entities under consideration help to organize and direct research programs and exegeses.
We consider how it fits into scholarly parameters (whether it be theories or methodologies, making it quantifiable in some way), and if, in academic settings, the study of oral history can or should be judged by the same measures as history, sociology, or anthropology.
There is scholarly uncertainty whether her mother was the count's first wife Judith of Évreux or his second wife Eremburga of Mortain.
Some questions the committee will want to consider, he says, are how to fund the use of open access by JHU researchers, how and whether to obtain wider copyright to scholarly articles, and whether or not to require that articles accepted for publication be put in an institutional repository that is freely accessible.
There is some scholarly disagreement about whether chaparral dominated the landscape or whether there were oak savannas in some of the valleys the historical record is quite patchy but by the beginning of the 20th century, no native forests were extant.
There is no scholarly dispute about whether the temple stood beneath what is today the Aksa Mosque compound.
