But on the plain matter of democracy, he was surely on simpler ground.
But Kalanithi writes very well, in a plain and matter-of-fact way, without a trace of self-pity, and you are immediately gripped and carried along.
The projectors are plain matter-of-fact-men, but are already, I believe, aware of the blunder which they have committed in naming it 'Tarrytown' instead of 'Sleepy Hollow Cemeteryy.
And that presupposition, in turn, is not entailed by any claims concerned solely with plain matters of fact.
But at least part of Hume's concern seems to have been that no set of claims about plain matters of fact ('is' claims) entail any evaluative claims ('ought' claims).
That is, he seems to have thought, that one can infer the latter from the former only if, in addition to premises concerning plain matters of fact, one has on hand as well at least one evaluative premise.
It's a plain fact: No matter how good your product or compelling your pitch, people tend to buy from people they like.
The text editor interprets the file as if it were a plain text file, no matter what format it really is.
I was having friends over, and a plain piece of fish, no matter how regal, seemed too spartan.
But the geological blessing of such a plain can change, in a matter of hours, into calamity, as Mr. Gill saw this week on the family farm, established in 1937, which sits at the base of the Catskill Mountains.
First, get a plain pen, size doesn't matter.
