Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being disputed; disputable; not too evident to exclude difference of opinion: as, a controvertible point of law.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Open to
questioning ; that which can bedenied ,challenged , ordisputed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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By presuming that only my beliefs, practices, and perceptions are correct and unassailable implies that all others ipso facto are incorrect and controvertible.
Robert Buswell: A Place For Doubt Robert Buswell 2011
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By presuming that only my beliefs, practices, and perceptions are correct and unassailable implies that all others ipso facto are incorrect and controvertible.
Robert Buswell: A Place For Doubt Robert Buswell 2011
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GARS forms a more coherent whole since its editorial edifice was the work of Weber himself; and yet, its relationship to his other sociologies of, for instance, law, city, music, domination, and economy, remains controvertible.
Asthmatic 2009
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Whatever advantage CBS thought the documents gave them in covering the story of Bush's "service," his inadequacies as a Guardsman have been well documented elsewhere with non-controvertible evidence.
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Whatever advantage CBS thought the documents gave them in covering the story of Bush's "service," his inadequacies as a Guardsman have been well documented elsewhere with non-controvertible evidence.
A known known. 2004
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Whatever advantage CBS thought the documents gave them in covering the story of Bush's "service," his inadequacies as a Guardsman have been well documented elsewhere with non-controvertible evidence.
Archive 2004-09-01 2004
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Whatever advantage CBS thought the documents gave them in covering the story of Bush's "service," his inadequacies as a Guardsman have been well documented elsewhere with non-controvertible evidence.
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Whatever advantage CBS thought the documents gave them in covering the story of Bush's "service," his inadequacies as a Guardsman have been well documented elsewhere with non-controvertible evidence.
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It is, in some sense, a real puzzle: there is nothing particularly deterministic about Newtonian physics; many who accepted Newtonian physics I would go so far as to say the overwhelming majority were not determinists, and were clearly not inconsistent in this; you can only get rationally from Newtonian physics to determinism by a vast number of controvertible suppositions; and so forth.
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The real core of ID, however, is a very controvertible thesis about the relation between an effect's exemplar cause and its proximate efficient cause.
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