Sentence examples for implausible hypothesis from inspiring English sources

There is, however, insufficient archaeological and historical evidence for that view (which involves an implausible hypothesis that the process postulated was discontinuous and actually reversed for a brief period at a date later than the 8th century).

In short, it would be more accurate - even realistic - to think of developmental independence as an unlikely and implausible hypothesis.

Recall the Sidgwickian motivation for accepting ethical supervenience, introduced in Section 2. According to this motivation, we should accept an ethical supervenience thesis because doing so rules out the implausible hypothesis of brute ethical contingency.

The danger is clear: if the utterly unsupported, but not entirely implausible, hypothesis is accepted then the deduction is not at all unreasonable.

However, only longitudinal studies can rule out the alternative, albeit currently implausible, hypothesis that functional language reorganization can have a profound effect on macrostructure of sulcal morphology of the planum temporale, i.e. inducing changes in the order of several centimetres.

These views are all committed to implausible hypotheses about the intentions of mathematicians and ordinary folk.

It can probably be regarded as just a special case of the well known Duhem-Quine underdetermination of theory by evidence: many philosophers of science hold that any theory can be made to fit any evidence provided one is allowed freely to supplement the theory with arbitrary (and perhaps ad hoc, complex, and implausible) auxiliary hypotheses, which is essentially what Anderson was doing.

Stoppard sought to link this story, true but implausible, with the hypothesis, plausible but untrue, that Joyce, Tzara, and Lenin had known one another in Zurich.

There are some authors who suggest that maize is a hybrid between Tripsacum and a perennial teosinte (e.g., Eubanks 2001), though many others consider this hypothesis implausible (Bennetzen et al. 2001; Emshwiller 2006).

Although such flaws rendered the cyclol hypothesis implausible, they did not make it impossible.

Rather, this evidence was found unconvincing because it was not sufficient to overcome prior plausibility considerations that made the drift hypothesis extremely implausible — much less plausible than the contraction hypothesis.