What we say is inevitably different from what others hear, or perhaps what we even mean, as by the time it reaches the interior consciousness of the hearer, it has passed through the filters – on both sides – of emotion, of denial, of wishful-thinking, of deniability, of all the layers of distortion built up through the experiences between the individuals involved.
And they nearly always prefer misleading to lying.[42] The greater deniability of implicature, and the fact that it enables us to veil our intentions, are often motivating factors (Pinker 2007).
He would ask his aides, "Do we have deniability on that?" California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman claims deniability on the immigration status of her housekeeper, Nicky Diaz Santillian, who is fighting deportation because she has been an illegal alien in this country for many years.
To me, at least, this seems like a thin reed on which to construct a theory of deniability for the Trump campaign and the Trump White House.
The denial of coordination seems suspicious — like the plausible deniability of a government leak.
The four say that KI has embarked on a "diversion tactic" whose purpose is "to provide KI, under the leadership of Prof Hamsten, with an air of plausible deniability to the images revealed in the documentary".
"Privacy" comes from the plausible deniability of any result [11]. .
It also provides both countries with plausible deniability of UK or US complicity if the Saudi-led coalisinn is in fact found to be violating international law.
Given those reforms, it should be unacceptable for a branch of the U.S. government to hire armed thugs in Afghanistan to kill, threaten, torture, and abuse Afghan and Pakistani citizens under the barely plausible deniability of U.S. authority.
