Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being plausible or worthy of praise or acceptance; especially, a specious or superficial appearance of being right or worthy of acceptance, approval, or applause.
- noun A praiseworthy act or quality; whatever deserves or commands applause.
- noun Applause.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Something worthy of praise.
- noun The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
- noun Anything plausible or specious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
plausible ;speciousness . - noun Anything plausible or
specious . - noun obsolete Something
worthy ofpraise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun apparent validity
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At individual subject level the recourse to the term plausibility, related to fuzzy logic, would help the physician to communicate to the patient more efficiently in comparison with the term probability, related to binary logic.
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As I will try to explain, the recourse to the term plausibility, related to fuzzy logic, would help the physician to communicate to the patient more efficiently in comparison with the term probability, related to binary logic.
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Bradford: Christians and others who believe in God are well aware that non-believers will not accord credibility to any belief whose plausibility is linked to God.
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Hmmmm. Actually, that has a certain plausibility to it … drowning in a sea of red Says:
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Christians and others who believe in God are well aware that non-believers will not accord credibility to any belief whose plausibility is linked to God.
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However, "as an aesthetic criterion, plausibility is far more important in both genres than fidelity to science," says the scholar, a professor of English at Saskatchewan's University of Regina.
Cave Man Stories 2009
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I think determining plausibility is pretty much impossible ... an untestable hypothesis, essentially.
"And the bone shall never heal. I care not if you kneel." greygirlbeast 2010
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First, you claim that a fallacious argument needs to seem clever enough to maintain plausibility:
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But, unless he has some freakishly clever tricks up his sleeve, I think it would strain plausibility if a high-profile politician was able to put tens or hundreds of hours into a secret life without at least one or two close confidantes finding out.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Common Superhero Day Jobs, Part 2 2009
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AW: For me, plausibility is essential for a good thriller.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Allen Wyler 2008
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