Sentence examples for implausible proposition from inspiring English sources
For instance, it assumes that undocumented immigrants without a high school diploma are perfect substitutes for American workers without a high school diploma, an implausible proposition on language grounds alone.
Pentagon and military officials cautioned that the United States was not in any way considering the use of overland routes through Iran for American supplies, a politically implausible proposition given the near frozen state of relations between the United States and Iran.
What an implausible, piquant proposition.
It seems implausible, since the proposition exists necessarily, and is intrinsically qualitatively identical, even when the chance varies; so the chance cannot supervene on properties of this proposition.
18 The proposition becomes more implausible when one considers the gross error that pathologists and cancer registry staff would have to have been making, for thousands of patients each year, consistently over many years, and in each of the cancer registries across all four UK nations, to explain the longstanding survival deficit between the UK and other European countries.
Since it seems implausible that all of these propositions are required in the best explanation of the occurrence of our intuitions, it seems that [P1], which requires such a role, is undermined by such cases.
Propositions (a) and (b) will be shown to be, at very least, implausible.
And I'm extraordinarily impressed by the bravery of those learning tonal languages, who seem to spend their days accidentally propositioning people, discussing their private parts and ordering the locals to do the most implausible and obscene things, and yet manage to keep going.
There seems point in holding that, on this approach, truth is held to be both intrinsic to propositions, and primitive.[27] Intrinsicism is not a popular position these days: Candlish describes it as "so implausible that almost no one else [apart from Russell, in 1903 4] has been able to take it seriously" (1999b: 208); but it may be an idea whose time has come.
