He contended that no matter how compelling skeptical arguments may be, they cannot undermine the certain knowledge that people have of basic propositions, such as "the Earth has existed for a long time".
Keith Taylor, the Green MEP for South East England added that "with big climate change talks coming up in Paris in December it's crucial to create effective mechanisms to ensure that excess carbon allowances cannot undermine emission reduction targets".
Even the misstep of the nightmare sequence created by John Ferren, which sees Scottie's disembodied face floating in a psychedelic void, cannot undermine the stifling atmosphere of romantic intensity epitomised in the ripe colours and Bernard Herrmann's grand, encircling score.
The windshield is shattered in such a way as to have turned opaque, and the injured driver cannot be seen; Frances' image of her is formed entirely by her "expensive, cultured voice," and by a kind of upper-class conversational refinement that even an apparent head injury cannot undermine.
New knowledge cannot undermine old knowledge.
Despite the growing concern for the energy consumption of the Internet, green strategies for network and traffic management cannot undermine Quality of Service (QoS) and network survivability.
Nevertheless, this cannot undermine the importance of careful and meticulous planning of peri-operative care needed for octogenarians, as THA and TKA is increasingly performed in this population.
Another notable difference is that when B logically entails A, adding a premise C cannot undermine the entailment i.e., (C·B) must entail A as well.
Hence, one cannot undermine the notion of mind-independent reality in the simple way Carnap imagines, namely, by the internal/external distinction coupled with the claim that external statements are pseudo-statements.
