Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention.

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She is Professor Emerita of History at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). Joyce Oldham Appleby (born April 9 1929) is an American historian.