Sentence examples for plausible doctrine from inspiring English sources

Second, it is simply not a plausible doctrine in its strong form.

What about the following maxim however : "any means should be deemed appropriate if they serve the utilitarian ideal "? Utilitarians will claim that an ideal public should at least consider utilitarianism a plausible doctrine.

And as Phillips (2010: §4.1) notes, Tye's proposal is incompatible with plausible doctrines concerning the sort of epistemic access we have to our own experience.

So, plausible patterned doctrines will be historical.

On the most plausible reading, the doctrine of double effect can be relevant to the permissibility of voluntary euthanasia only when a person's death is bad for her or, to put it another way, a harm to her.

Endorsing the plausible-seeming Augustinian doctrine that consciousness is confined to the present point of time does not oblige one to reject the (equally plausible) claim that change and succession feature prominently in immediate experience.

On one plausible understanding, Descartes' official doctrine has it that ideas are innate insofar as their content derives from the nature of the mind alone, as opposed to deriving from sense experience (cf. Newman 2006).

Most of us would find that, in order to be plausible at all, the doctrine would need to refer to a series of experiences rather than a single one.

As with the Doctrine of Double Effect, how plausible one finds these applications of the doctrine of doing and allowing will determine how plausible one finds this cause-based view of human agency.

This interpretation of envy's characteristic appraisal is more plausible, and it jibes better with the doctrine that envy is not a moral feeling.

Critics explore whether or not the doctrine is normatively stable: Do any plausible grounds there might be for denying Lockean private ownership of the world also generate grounds for denying individual self-ownership?