arguable
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1. arguable - Adjective
2. arguable - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Capable of being argued; admitting of debate.
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There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.
It is arguable that a closer contact between ethics and economics can be beneficial not only to economics but even to ethics. Many ethical problems have what we have been calling 'engineering' aspects, and some of them do, in fact, involve economic relations.
It's an ancient idea that the leader of a democracy should not be the cleverest but the most average. That's an arguable point, but the world has decided otherwise - except in America, where it still divides the country right down the middle.
Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.
When I started at the Guardian, though, I couldnt think of anything we saw eye to eye on, except feminism, and even this would soon be arguable as Guardian writers queued up to drool over Eminem.
Values are social norms - they're personal, emotional, subjective, and arguable. All of us have values. Even criminals have values.