Definition of "contestable" []

• That which can be contested. (adjective)

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• "Bourdieu suggest that the culture arises out of dissenting claims to universality, which might be characterized alternately as "absolute judgement" — Bourdieu's phrase for the promise of having the final say in contestable matters of cultural relevance — or, as Kant puts it in the Dialectic of Aesthetic Judgment ( '56), "a hope of coming to terms.""
• "This is the so-called contestable markets theory, pioneered by economist William Baumol, which suggests that even if one firm dominates an industry, it still must behave as if it had competition, because if its acts greedily in hiking prices and profits—it soon will.6 And firms even collaborate with competitors, legally, by making their products sufficiently different from others to build separate markets, customer loyalty, and demand, to diminish competition."
• "Although the definitions of "large" or "landing" are contestable, that is totally untrue."