The use of exempla is the practical embodiment of John's Academic skepticism and probabilism: because he does not wish to appear to pass dogmatic judgment on doubtful questions, he lines up the pronouncements of the wise in support.
As McGinnis explains, while founding era jurists believed that doubtful questions concerning constitutionality could be rendered clear through tried-and-true interpretive principles and disciplined inquiry into the available evidence, Thayer believed that this was a fool's errand.
Go through the exam again, erasing any tiny "x" that you can, repeating this elimination process -- until you come to a standstill, as follows: Check/redo doubtful questions that you had marked, that you have tried/answered, without looking at your original answers to see whether another process comes to mind.
How much of this they can take in at this stage is doubtful.' Questions you should be asking With the new advice options coming in, it will be increasingly important to know who you are dealing with when you seek out financial guidance.
It is doubtful such questions can measure reading ability accurately since students often do not read the passages.
Some people are happy without these, and whether you could be happy without them is, although doubtful, an open question.
This was not because we wanted to devalue its appropriateness for sampling plans, but rather because its contribution would be doubtful to the questions of this paper, based entirely on traditional frequentist statistics.
Scot Pollard, a former Kings center who fouled out of the game in question, sounded doubtful about Donaghy's charges.
Whether this is so remains doubtful, however, since meta-questions about the methodology of legal theory prima facie seem to be independent of questions in first-order legal theory like what the determinants of the content of law are.
