problematic
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According to a reasonably charitable assessment, the best of Ryle's lessons has long been assimilated while the problematic has been discarded.
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- adjective Posing a problem; difficult to solve: a repair that proved more problematic than first expected.
- adjective Open to doubt; debatable: "if you ever get married, which seems to me extremely problematic” (Oscar Wilde).
- adjective Not settled; unresolved or dubious: a problematic future.
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- His intellectual thirst for the problematic, and his ethical thirst for the incomplete, combined to hurry him away to the moments of suspense, big with undecided or unfulfilled fate. — Robert Browning
- The dogs were only a bit less problematic, and the cats ... — Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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According to a reasonably charitable assessment, the best of Ryle's lessons has long been assimilated while the problematic has been discarded.
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But if such actions would not be morally problematic, then the property of creating a world with massive irregularities cannot be a wrongmaking property of actions.
— The Problem of Evil -
And redressing the problematic is a most pressing task because a "renaissance of the sacred" has to happen "at least if humankind itself is not to die" (Ricoeur, 1995, 64).
— tabsir.net
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- = French problématique = Spanish problemático = Portuguese Italian problematico, from Latin problematicus, from Greek
προβληματικός , pertaining to a problem, fromπρόβλημα (τ -), a problem: see problem.
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