Sentence examples for sophisticated debates from inspiring English sources

We know a good deal about recent trends in the Epicurean school for example, its sophisticated debates with the Stoics on scientific method and mathematics yet we find little or no evidence in Lucretius' poem that he is aware of, let alone engaged in, these developments.

These errors have nothing to do with sophisticated debates about levels of selection (Dugatkin and Reeve 1994; Keller 1999).

The challenges call for a more sophisticated debate about trade.

We are nudging our way to a more sophisticated debate about management of the use of violence at home and abroad.

A more sophisticated debate, and one central to many of the most knowledgeable critiques of evolutionary psychology, revolves around more subtle distinctions, like the timing of evolutionary change, the criteria used to decide whether something is an adaptation.

Thrall's conclusion should be taken to heart: "In a Trump-dominated news environment the world loses its complexity and we lose the ability to ground foreign policy in a realistic and sophisticated debate about how to meet the challenges we face.

"This analysis is simplistic when a more measured and sophisticated debate could make a useful contribution".

This idea is to help inform a more nuanced and sophisticated debate about police and crime.

Thus a very sophisticated debate broke out, with different social scientists producing different data sets, and crunching the numbers in different ways, in support of their rival hypotheses.

The key figure of this sutra is a layman, Vimalakīrti, who feigns illness as a pretext for being visited by the Buddha's key disciples and other eminent Buddhist figures each of whom he engages and surpasses in sophisticated debate about core Mahayana concepts and practices.

That's what I like to do with my writing [he writes for the New Yorker]: to have these very sophisticated, philosophical debates happen on very basic levels".