However, there simply is no evidence for this thesis, and, what is more, it seems obviously false.
If, in my real life of 2012, I stand before this painting in the Museum of Modern Art, in New York, it seems obviously beautiful to me.
It's certainly small and light enough to pop in your briefcase or messenger bag on the way to work, but it seems obviously too big to carry around at night.
It seems obviously better to pay workers to freshen their résumés doing something or other, useful or not, than it is to pay them to "look for jobs" as their résumés grow mould.
But hermeneutic fictionalism is implausible and unmotivated; as an empirical hypothesis about what mathematicians intend, there is simply no good evidence for it, and it seems obviously false.
The sentence 'This sentence has five words' is not paradoxical, after all, even though it is self-referential; in fact, it seems obviously true.
The hair seemed obviously fake, but under it, it seems like she is wearing a helmet of some sort.
Some events seemed obviously staged.
At first, when I began doing so, whatever I read seemed obviously a lie.
Waller thought the results seemed obviously false, and he called his supervisor, Michael Pitts, to warn him.
