arguably

OK, so this word isn’t ‘spiritual jargon’ … it is, nevertheless jargon – generally from the world of scientific and engineering technical literature, where it means that a statement is not agreed by everyone to be universally applicable: there is a good case to dispute it.

So, for instance, if I was talking about the respect place of Shakespeare’s plays in the world of literature, I could say “arguably, Shakespeare was the greatest writer in recorded history”. This statement is arguable because:

• there is some debate over how much of the work credited to Shakespeare was actually written by Shakespeare (some say part or even all was written by Bacon or others); and
• there are other writers of considerable significance.

So this word is an admission that good reasons exist to dispute a statement. having admitted that, though, please consider the statement fairly and reasonably anyway :)