It lets us get at the issue that there is something a bit funny about believing in Santa Claus without appealing to murky notions of correspondence between the content of internal beliefs and external reality.
If the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress succeed in stripping funding from Planned Parenthood and giving employers carte blanche to deny women necessary medication under murky notions of moral disdain, all paths to health and wellness will disappear for a huge swath of Americans.
The murkiest notion appeared to be the representation of the medical error itself.
Like the Soviet show trials of old, the May 6th prosecution serves as a kind of theatrical ritual in which demonstrating the wickedness of the crime is just as important as proving guilt.Beyond that, the case gives the state a chance to relate the anti-Putin protesters to the perennial notion of murky enemies abroad who wish Russia harm.
These companies, which include communications media like Facebook and Twitter, write their own edicts about what kind of expression is allowed, things as diverse as pointed political criticism, nudity and notions as murky as hate speech.
We'd entered a murky area of conflicting notions of honor, pride, ambition and self-respect, and though to the observer his transgression might have been justifiable, you could also understand their disapproval.
Of course, if we go beyond this to more complex (and admittedly more interesting) statements, for example, to hypotheses of ancestry and descent, the picture becomes murkier because such notions cannot be tested; we are back to probability judgements, and unquantifiable ones at that, although now we can see where they are coming from.
In the mainstream media, the recent standard for pursuing open secrets has been murky, but generally guided by the notion that private behavior matters when it is at odds with public declarations.
The reader gets little flavour of Chechnya's steamy clan politics, or the rebel leadership's often bizarre and batty notions, nor of the murky deals in which all sides are engaged.
It sounds like the things you wanted to do at first, such as lending to marijuana businesses, were based on the notion that it would remain a murky industry that banks would stay away from – a notion that might not hold if pot becomes more broadly legal.
