Sentence examples for one might maintain from inspiring English sources

To mention just one example, one might maintain, with some plausibility, that an account of the concept ought to succumb to the liar paradox (see the entry on the liar paradox), otherwise it wouldn't be an adequate account of our concept of truth; this idea is considerably less plausible in the case of the property.

One might maintain that American children's literature, particularly that since World War II, is bolder, more experimental, more willing to try and fail, than England's.

For instance, one might maintain that the sentence "2 + 3 = 5" is not really about specific entities (the numbers 2, 3, and 5); rather, it says that whenever a pile of two objects is pushed together with a pile of three objects, the result is a pile of five objects.

If so, one might maintain that the notion of a physical theory is a Wittgensteinian family resemblance concept.

For instance, one might maintain that concepts are mental representations that are typed in terms of the Fregean senses they express.

One might maintain that there is no real entity to name "David," in the way that the story above requires; there is only Lumpl in a statuesque form.

One person might maintain only a small amount of phase 1 or a medium amount of phase 2. It's even possible to produce a small part of phase 1 on the right side of the body and phase 2 on the left (which can lead to subclinical balance disorders and a strong feeling of lurching or teetering when walking).

To be sure, one legitimately might maintain that SSB reasonably should have anticipated that its recording of a telephone conversation with a California client when the client is in California would be governed by California law, regardless of where the SSB employee with whom the client is speaking happens to be located.

Accepting basic equal human worth, one might cheerfully maintain that the correct ethic is egoism, that each person ought to strive to bring about her own advantage as best she can.

I have already suggested that some might find it natural to take (1)–(4) as expressing the same "semantic content" in some meaningful sense (perhaps the only meaningful sense: see note 7): if so, Dummett's distinction indicates how one might coherently maintain that position.

Positive frequency-dependent selection might maintain cooperation in one species and defection in another species even if both species have identical population structures and live in identical environments (i.e. face the same cost-benefit ratio).