Mr. Monson, 47, had expressed a wish as long as five years ago to officially become a Russian, and along the way he collected citizenship from a couple dubious entities linked to Russia.
When additional dubious entities, such as tropes and mere possibilia, are added to the mix and questions are asked about the relative naturalness of all these items, the amount of disagreement among philosophers grows exponentially.
The fate of many entities of dubious value, such as the regional Fed banks, remains unclear.
Any stronger commitment to such entities remains dubious.
In DmC we can't vicariously slay that which would destroy real society, but we can at least have a showdown with an entity whose contributions are dubious: a television talking head.
The second worry is that, since there are infinitely many existing entities (a claim for which McTaggart will argue for later in the Nature of Existence), and we observe only finitely many of them, any inductive argument moving from claims about the features of what we observe to the features of existent entities in general will be dubious.
It thinks the issue of Palestinian statehood has little effect on broader American concerns and is also dubious about the ability of the Palestinians to create an entity that can resist a radical takeover.
Through purchase, inheritance, leasing, and other means, some of dubious legality, smaller properties have been merged into much larger entities.
Through its pro-settler policies, Israel is forging one political entity between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea — an entity of dubious democratic legitimacy, given that millions of West Bank Palestinians are barred from citizenship and the right to vote in the state that controls their lives.
