In Yemen, it trusted the port authority not to be infiltrated by Islamic kamikazes, a doubtful proposition at best.
It's a shame because Davis would be in the conversation for MVP if the Pelicans somehow made the postseason, a doubtful proposition even if Davis were 100% healthy.
In the past several months, they've come up with a bill in Oklahoma that would require a woman seeking an abortion to get written permission from the father of the fetus; in several other states, bills would require that women who have taken the abortion pill be informed of the doubtful proposition that, with timely intervention, the process can be "reversed".
Whether the U.S. will do as well if it runs more oil companies and oil-service companies out of the country is a much more doubtful proposition.
"Montana offers no evidence to support this facially doubtful proposition, and it flies in the face of the fact that many of the other 38 states that elect their judges not only allow party endorsements but require party nominations," wrote Rakoff.
Days before Bush left office, the head of the Office of Legal Counsel said that given "the doubtful nature of the propositions," he had to formally repudiate the opinions nine in all now presumably to keep some future President from digging them up, like inscriptions in a tomb, and calling them precedents.
For example, Buridan, Sophismata VIII.13, concerns the ingenious proposition 'Socrates knows the proposition written on the wall to be doubtful to him', where it is supposed that this proposition is the only proposition written on the wall, that Socrates sees it and is in a state of doubt about its truth, and that furthermore Socrates knows he is in that state of doubt.
The constructed function we substitute for the supposed inferred entities, and thereby obtain a new and less doubtful interpretation of the body of propositions in question.
In contrast, philosophical skepticism attempts to render doubtful every member of some class of propositions that we think falls within our ken.
Yet if God is utterly transcendent, it is doubtful that humans could possess an adequate concept of him or form true propositions about him.
