*** Value pluralism contends that there are two or more genuine scales of value, knowable as such, yet incommensurable, so that any prioritization of these values is either non-cognitive or subjective.

In Super / System, poker legend Doyle Brunson claims to check-raise very rarely in no-limit hold ' em ; he contends that it is more profitable to simply bet a quality hand, regardless of whether his opponent will try to bluff.

Richard Dawkins is harshly critical of theology, creation and intelligent design in his book The God Delusion in which he contends that an appeal to intelligent design can provide no explanation for biology because it not only begs the question of the designer's own origin ; but an intelligent designer must itself be far more complex and difficult to explain than anything it is capable of designing.

Edward J. Schoenfeld ( rejecting the older figures of 60 – 400, 000 Umayyad and 75, 000 Franks ) contends that " estimates that the Umayyads had over fifty thousand troops ( and the Franks even more ) are logistically impossible.

Though Kennedy may have intended this to remain a more nominal position, Taylor Branch in Pillar of Fire contends that Johnson served to push the Kennedy administration's actions for civil rights further and faster than Kennedy originally intended to go.

John Zerzan contends the collapse of civilization as having a gradual decrease on population size, with the possibility of people having the need to seek means of sustainability more close to nature.

Corel contends that WordPerfect is the only viable alternative to Microsoft Office with sales 70 times more than Lotus ' SmartSuite.

" Swain contends that no conductor knew more than Monteux about expressive possibilities in the strings, claiming that " the conductor who doesn't play a stringed instrument simply doesn't know how to get the different sounds ; and the bow has such importance in string playing that there are maybe 50 different ways of producing the same note ".

-This theory was forwarded at the 2008 Rhodesian Ridgeback World Congress, and contends that an honest evaluation of the breed's functional history indicates that during its formative development and early use as a breed, the Ridgeback was much more a " Hunter's / Farmer's Ox-Wagon Dog " than it was a " Lion Dog ".

Notwithstanding the ambiguity of its title, and the fact that it attacks the priests of all churches without moderation, it contends for the most part, at least explicitly, for no more than must be admitted by every Protestant.

Though Sartre's conclusion seems to be that being diminishes before nothingness since consciousness is probably based more on spontaneity than on stable seriousness, he contends that any person of a serious nature is obligated to continuous struggle between:

Trithemius contends that the copying of texts is central to the model of monastic education, arguing that transcription enables the monk to more deeply contemplate and come to a more full understanding of the text.

The historian John N. Schumacher contends that Morayta and other non-Filipino laymen who pushed Aglipay toward schism from the Catholic Church were motivated more by resentment of friars ' activities in the Philippines than nationalism.

He has also criticized the American legal system, opining that it provides lawyers and vexatious litigators the incentive to file frivolous lawsuits indiscriminately, which Stossel contends often generate more wealth for lawyers than deserving clients, stifle innovation and personal freedoms, and cause harm to private citizens, taxpayers, consumers and businesses.

The book, an overview of poverty-fighting in America from colonial times to the 1990s, argues that private individuals and organizations, particularly Christian churches, have a responsibility to care for the poor, and contends that challenging personal and spiritual help, common until the 1930s, was more effective than the government welfare programs of recent decades.

We are increasingly free to choose what we want to do and who we want to be ( although Giddens contends that wealth gives access to more options ).

" He further contends that the resources devoted to Dino, Desi & Billy in an effort to make them successful took away valuable support needed by other bands at the time, such as label mates The Kinks: Dino, Desi & Billy " took away valuable air time and sales from much better groups that really needed it, in an era in which chart considerations were much more vital to ensure an ongoing career.

The final important revelation offered this season was that Jack by no means believes the law to be unnecessary or weak, stating that he " know that these laws have to be more important " than the often few people he is trying to save ( one must assume that 24 only reveals rare exceptions, and that in the " regular / workday " life of CTU, the targets are much smaller ); however, despite this belief, he contends that his " heart couldn't live with " sacrificing innocent persons, however few ( the example he cites is " fifteen people on a bus "), for the sake of maintaining some abstract law or legal fiction.

However, Cave contends that Mason and Underhill's eyewitness accounts, as well as the contemporaneous histories of Mather and Hubbard, were more " polemical than substantive.

As well as explaining the science of codes and describing the impact of cryptography on history, the book also contends that cryptography is more important today than ever before.

Du Bois contends that the periodical suffered during the Great Depression as the " circulation dropped steadily until by 1933 it was scarcely more than ten thousand paid subscriptions.

Hogan claims ( in his autobiography, Hollywood Hulk Hogan ) that Russo made it a shoot, and Hogan was double-crossed by Turner executive Brad Siegel, who did not want to use Hogan any more due to how much Hogan cost per appearance ; and Bischoff, in his autobiography, Controversy Creates Ca $ h, contends that Hogan winning and leaving with the title was a work which would result in his return several months later-the plan was to crown a new champion at Halloween Havoc, only for Hogan to come out afterwards and ultimately win a champion vs. champion match-but that Russo's coming out to fire him was a shoot which led to the lawsuit filed by Hogan.

Guterstam contends that traditional facilities require larger capital investment and demand more labor and energy costs than their ecological counterparts.

Bourne contends that as most Gigantopithecus fossils are found in China, and as many species of animals migrated across the Bering land bridge, it is not unreasonable to assume that Gigantopithecus might have as well.

Clement contends that while both are important, the fear of God is foremost, because through faith one receives divine wisdom.

The Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ) contends that the thousands of changes made to the original revelations as published in the Book of Commandments ( including the change of the church's name ) are not doctrinal and result from Joseph Smith's fall from his original calling.

Another example is a strong operationalist viewpoint, which contends that reliance on operational definitions, as purported by the DSM, necessitates that intuitive concepts such as depression be replaced by specific measurable concepts before they are scientifically meaningful.

Cross-cultural psychiatrist Arthur Kleinman contends that the Western bias is ironically illustrated in the introduction of cultural factors to the DSM-IV: the fact that disorders or concepts from non-Western or non-mainstream cultures are described as " culture-bound ", whereas standard psychiatric diagnoses are given no cultural qualification whatsoever, is to Kleinman revelatory of an underlying assumption that Western cultural phenomena are universal.

She asserts: " In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness ," and as a result contends that in film a woman is the " bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

Moore contends that even if such arguments are correct, they do not provide definitions for the term ' good.

According to Plato, there are some forms that are not instantiated at all, but, he contends, that does not imply that the forms could not be instantiated.

The traditional view contends that all the letters are by the hand of John the apostle, and the linguistic structure, special vocabulary, and polemical issues all lend toward this theory.

Cognitive theory contends that solutions to problems take the form of algorithms — rules that are not necessarily understood but promise a solution, or heuristics — rules that are understood but that do not always guarantee solutions.

He contends that the very notion of a collection of " thoughts " that exist in a privileged region of the mind such that they are in principle never accessible to conscious awareness, is incoherent.

These wages, he contends, are the opportunity cost of being a mother and raising children.

He further contends that most of the French political and media class are corrupt and out of touch with the real needs of the common people, and conspire to exclude Le Pen and his party from mainstream politics.

He also contends that they are all based on subjectivist ethics, in which ethical conduct is based on the subjective or intuitive experience of an individual or group.

The Christian right contends that morning-after pills such as Plan B and Ella are possible abortifacients, able to interfere with a fertilized egg's implantation in the uterine wall.

The physiological school of thought contends that in the case of inguinal hernia, the above mentioned are only an anatomical symptom of the underlying physiological cause.

This belief grew out of opposition to revolutionary socialism, which contends that revolutions are necessary for fundamental structural changes to occur.

In both cases, McConnell contends that competence ultimately determines whether a project succeeds or fails, regardless of the development approach taken ; furthermore, he claims that incompetent " impostor organizations " ( which merely imitate the form of successful software development organizations ) are in fact engaging in what he calls Cargo cult software engineering.