Sentence examples for tenable theory from inspiring English sources

"The idea that this subjective intent of somebody making a payment, without more, turns the payment into a campaign contribution — it's not the law, and it's just not a tenable theory," he said.

However, it is possible to construct a tenable working hypothesis.

Still he concluded, from observations that people were not always aware of how their own perception differed from sensory reality, that a diluted form of the dualist theory was tenable.

But during the next three decades it grew clear that such theories are tenable only for very limited sets of data.

That's not tenable until you establish a theory of cosmic consciousness.

This theory is not considered tenable by most commentators.

Questions might be raised about whether a modest version of the theory of direct reference remains tenable in virtue of the reference of 'α', say.

This leads to the conclusion that the basic assumptions for current design provisions are no longer tenable under the present knowledge of shell theory and shell design, and, therefore should be reconsidered.

In assessing the metaethical relevance of constructivism, critics tend to focus on three issues: the question whether constructivism offers a distinctive semantics (§7.1); whether it succeeds at steering a middle way between realism and antirealism (§7.2)., and whether its appeal to constitutive norms in practical reasoning and in the theory of rational agency is tenable (§7.3).

In fact, many modern logico-semantical "re-constructions" and philosophical interpretations show a Meinongian object theory that is not naïve but tenable and fruitful.

As the biological basis of analgesia by TENS remains speculative, the 'gate control theory' of pain is the most tenable explanation but release of endogenous opiates could be involved [144].