Every goddamn person says, 'Pakistan.' So I say, 'O.K., guys, we should be talking about a PakAf policy, not an AfPak policy.' " This is a thoroughly plausible proposition — if, and only if, ceding much of Afghanistan to the Taliban would not be a calamity.
Descartes' belief that the fact that he had made (epistemic) mistakes provides a basis for thinking that the Author of his being is less than perfect, and that, in turn, renders plausible the proposition that his epistemic equipment is not reliable.
The theoretically plausible value proposition underpinning electronic human resources information systems (HRISs) is that such systems strengthen management of HRH data [ 5], which in turn has the potential to create a more efficient and transparent work environment.
Framed another way, one might say globalization and democracy go hand in hand, and, with empirical tests based on plausible instruments, this proposition holds up reasonably well (López-Córdova and Meissner 2008).
This is equivalent to (D1) if, as seems plausible, for every false proposition there is a true one to the effect that it is false, and, less trivially, there are no propositions without a truth value.
Schiffer considers several compositional theories and argues that none of these theories offers a plausible account for the proposition that is supposed to be the content of Tanya's belief.
Given the plausible assumption that the proposition expressed by a sentence is a function of the semantic values of its constituent expressions together with their mode of combination, it seems inevitable that what the latter sentence says is just what the former sentence says assuming, with the naïve theory, that 'Hesperus' and 'Phosphorus' possess the same semantic value.
And since there are necessarily false propositions, that is, propositions that are true in no possible world, it is plausible, on this conception of propositions, to identify these propositions with the empty set.
It is plausible to say that propositions can be freely negated, conjoined and disjoined to other propositions.
On the face of it, then, we are confronted with a paradox a set of independently very plausible but seemingly mutually inconsistent propositions.
It shows that an intuitively plausible way of dealing with propositions that should no longer be derivable as a result of reasoning by cases, can have far reaching consequences.
