Sentences with phrase «essentially contestable»

However, the term has become so ubiquitous it is in danger of losing all meaning, or worse, of reifying «teacher learning» within a narrowly defined ambit which loses sight of the essentially contestable concepts which underpin it.

However, religious establishment (a term that may well be essentially contestable in British constitutional law) necessarily carries privileges with it that can not be afforded uniformly.

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Even if, for argument's sake, there were to emerge a broad consensus that the impacts of SRM could be accurately predicted (which seems highly unlikely and endlessly contestable), the social and political impacts of such an intervention are essentially un-knowable, meaning that whatever level of physical scientific certainty or engineering know - how we might gain in this area, the whole enterprise will remain radically unpredictable and risky.