The perfect example would be the whole pseudo-science of "evolutionary psychology," which seeks to explain why man is the way he is, by means of evolutionary plausibilities. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I don't think this can really be a true/false, but we can discuss it as a combination of probabilities and plausibilities. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The sober, somber epilogue proffers cool plausibilities — sensible alleviations premised on those rare qualities, basic political will and common sense. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Thus, we have good reasons to trust our senses and our brains '"simulations" to estimate plausibilities of future events. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But there's something else, too -- something having to do with the ways a writer manipulates expectations and, partly, how the writer guides our perception of plausibilities -- Csicsery-Ronay notes, for instance, that "Hal Clement's Mission of Gravity is so famous for the plausibility of its heavy planet Mesklin that few readers remark on the absurdity of its centipede-like alien protagonists behaving like buccaneer capitalists communicating with human beings with no information loss." ❋ Unknown (2009)
DMC: The patriarchy of the Half-Continent well, the Haacobin Empire at least is largely a product of sourcing real history for social plausibilities and inspiration; certainly it is not a pointed inclusion. ❋ A. Fortis (2008)
A Bayesian logicist must tell us how to assign values to these pre-evidential prior plausibilities for each hypothesis or theory under consideration, and must do so in a way that relies only on their syntactic logical structure, or on some measure of their syntactic simplicity. ❋ Hawthorne, James (2008)
That the NAS report backs into that conclusion without stating it clearly, sans caveats, asides, and face-saving plausibilities, means that they deliberately hid the bitter truth with a coating of political candy. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I would suggest that if Philo estimates the various plausibilities to be such that on the evidence before him the probability of theism comes out near to one he should describe himself as a theist and if it comes out near zero he should call himself an atheist, and if it comes out somewhere in the middle he should call himself an agnostic. ❋ Smart, J. J. C. (2004)
But as with most philosophical disputes the issues are complex and there may be trading off of rival plausibilities and implausibilities. ❋ Smart, J. J. C. (2004)
In assessing the plausibilities it is worth recalling that the fine tuning appeals to God's purposes, should he exist, and to his supposed interest in minds and particularly in consciousness. ❋ Smart, J. J. C. (2004)
Sometimes his plausibilities, his vehemence, and his vows disturbed it for a time; but there it remained like the picture of a camera obscura, into which a momentary light has been admitted, unseen for a second, but the images return with the darkness, and group themselves in their old colours and places again. ❋ Unknown (2003)
They tried to argue it away by reminding conscience that they had purloined sweetmeats and apples scores of times; but conscience was not to be appeased by such thin plausibilities; it seemed to them, in the end, that there was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only ❋ Unknown (2003)
Inasmuch [2655] as certain men have set the truth aside, and bring in lying words and vain genealogies, which, as the apostle says, [2656] "minister questions rather than godly edifying which is in faith," and by means of their craftily-constructed plausibilities draw away the minds of the inexperienced and take them captive, [I have felt constrained, my dear friend, to compose the following treatise in order to expose and counteract their machinations.] ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)
But he also knew that probabilities, and plausibilities, had never been deciding factors in his life. ❋ Castro, Adam Troy (2001)
Trying to consider what to say, trying to weigh up the plausibilities and project the consequences amidst this pain and panic and fear was like trying work out your rate of vertical acceleration as your engineless aeroplane plummets steeply earthward. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (2000)
It's his feet - Well, Slothrop can feel this beast in the sky: its visible claws and scales are being mistaken for clouds and other plausibilities ... or else everyone has agreed to call them other names when Slothrop is listening. ... ❋ Pynchon, Thomas (1978)
