Although it is unlikely that a child can be radicalized or that they can hold political beliefs that they genuinely understand, it is plausible that children can be brainwashed by adults who hold such beliefs.
In challenging the predominance and simplicity of this framework in an empirically acute fashion, Batson has at least established altruism claiming that besides egoistic motivations we are also motivated by genuinely altruistic reasons as an empirically plausible hypothesis.
Those details make the flat-earthers' theory so elaborately absurd it sounds like a joke, but many of its supporters genuinely consider it a more plausible model of astronomy than the one found in textbooks.
As such, it is completely plausible that they have genuinely concluded that investment in Clear Channel would in fact be a very profitable trade for them.
But is it plausible to draw a distinction between genuinely natural and conventional kinds when it comes to the social sciences?
And there is an intuitively plausible sense in which one can genuinely wonder whether it makes sense to ask about the number of colors that are exemplified in the world independently of some framework provided by color concepts.
It is far easier to dispose of a dictator and build a plausible democratic structure than to build a genuinely pluralist culture.
But with Oprah as the investigative magistrate, Armstrong gets to play to a jury of millions of viewers and do a perfectly plausible impression of a flawed human being who's genuinely sorry for being "an arrogant prick".
