Is the idea that taxpayers should necessarily guarantee private lenders a commonly accepted proposition?
I like to think that I was more prepared than most for the possibility that such a thing might happen; developments in Asia in the late 1990s badly shook my faith in the widely accepted proposition that events like those of the 1930s could never happen again.
"This is fully in line with the generally accepted proposition that the client, in this case the government, has proprietary ownership of documents that had been brought into existence or received by a lawyer acting as agent on behalf of the client, or that had been prepared for the benefit of the client and at the client's expense".
A view, called anti-irrationalism by Ajdukiewicz, demanded that every rationally accepted proposition be intersubjectively communicable and testable.
This has become a widely known, and even unthinkingly accepted, proposition.
Developing theories which give such accounts in a way that fits well with intuitive data concerning propositional attitude ascriptions would enhance our reasons to accept propositions.
"If you are concerned that politics is dirty," he explained, "you're more inclined to accept propositions put to you by prosecutors in a case involving politicians".
Odd though it seems, people who can't accept propositions for which no empirical evidence exists tend to suffer more self-doubt than those who take great leaps of faith into the unknown.
"And when people who have had long practice in organisation and influence can produce phrases that appear to chime with your thinking, your hope and ambition for change in our society, then people will accept propositions that, if they sat down and thought about it, they often wouldn't".
But if the Easy Arguments succeed, it seems that to accept propositions, we must accept Platonism.
