Sentence examples for try to doubt from inspiring English sources

Try to doubt Mr. Ramirez and he'll pull out a map of the city that highlights its changing ethnic composition.

"But the way the press acts is that they try to doubt people's motives and try to suggest we have a malign purpose, and they try to destroy people's character.

We are to try to doubt propositions and we should retain them only if they are absolutely certain and we are unable to doubt them.

When I try to doubt my own existence, I immediately apprehend that I must exist in order to be attempting the doubt.

I can no longer doubt the Arc 1 conclusions about God, or the Arc 2 conclusions about the divine guarantee, because those conclusions have become self-evident: to try to doubt them is to think about them; but to think about them is to apprehend their truth.

Similarly (on this interpretation), when I try to doubt God's existence, or omnipotence, or benevolence — or any other attribute contained in the very conception of an all-perfect being — I immediately apprehend, as Descartes writes, that any such sceptical conception of God "implies a conceptual contradiction — that is, it cannot be conceived" (1643 letter to Voetius, AT 8b:60).

He says that "If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything.

As we saw, Hume (1739, p. 252) famously doubted, or tried to doubt, that we have unified consciousness of self at least.

The Cartesian suggestion that we should begin by trying to doubt everything appears to be an attempt to step outside this context, relying upon no beliefs that we have not ratified though reflective inquiry.

Your intention is to try to sow doubt into whether this network exists".

Mr. Levander asked about the differences during cross-examination to try to raise doubt about the government's case.