0 a person who has entered a competition (for a title etc) -- konkurrencedeltager; udfordrer
Nevertheless, however devious, the stratagems chosen by a contender must at least bear the appearance of conformity with the implicit norms of the argumentative game.
Each contender resorts at least on some occasion to the entire gamut of stratagems available.
Interpretations are perceived as embedding presumptions that bias the debate - a fact that contenders naturally want to take advantage of.
Outside of engineering, specialists in medicine or law would be strong contenders to use the approach.
The interest of the collection at hand is that the main contenders in this interpretative battlefield are present.
Moreover, there is a long tradition of populist or technocratic presidential contenders who, despite losing, attracted substantial popular support.
This book is a serious contender to be the textbook of choice for the undergraduate students.
The expansion of the problematic includes the questioning by the contenders of their adversaries' factual, methodological, and conceptual presuppositions.
