If you believe that the Syrians and the Russians read our newspapers and Web sites, and have elementary political sense, doubtful.
However, on some accounts of consciousness, this distinction itself is doubtful, since conscious sense experience is taken to be nothing more than a form a judging.
As Benacerraf and Putnam (1964) have observed, the acknowledgement that supertasks are possible has a profound influence on the philosophy of mathematics: the notion of truth (in arithmetic, say) would no longer be doubtful, in the sense of dependent on the particular axiomatisation used.
Smollett gives us this couplet: Debauch'd from sense, let doubtful meanings run The vague conundrum and the prurient pun.
Even before meeting the unions on May 14th, the social-affairs minister, François Fillon, said there was room to negotiate on several issues: a rise in the minimum pension for the low-paid, for instance, or over penalties on those who retire after paying too few contributions.Crossed fingersWhether this makes financial sense is doubtful.
But it is doubtful that it makes sense to talk about empty pluralities.
Whether or not the historical Hume was a "Humean" in this sense is doubtful.
It's thus doubtful that it makes sense to have a plan that depends on new students enrolling at these Corinthian campuses, as opposed to seeking educational opportunities elsewhere.
I'm doubtful that people's senses are attuned to others' bodies and the surrounding environment only in the event of an aesthetic staging, or that a possibility of a new community needs to emerge specifically from this kind of event.
It is normal for people to put off having children when the future looks doubtful, so the change made sense.
Indeed, it is doubtful whether, in a figurative sense, she has ever looked at a map in her life; she lacks a goal, a plan, an inner compass, anything resembling a sense of direction.
