But is it so implausible?
If Andrew Sullivan wants to play Tom Paine, he should consider that while democracy is indeed quite often implausible, it often proves irrepressible, and we should spend at least as much time weaving the bonds of citizen-leadership as we do denouncing the demagogues who emerge when the weaving has failed.
Indeed, extreme and implausible ecological change seemed to be required to yield a selective advantage to sex in models based on such processes as ecological change and ecological competition.
But anyone who thought about the lags involved found this implausible -- indeed, hilarious.
Obviously I don't believe any of the freshwater stories, and indeed find them wildly implausible.
This sense of historical reality makes it seem not merely inaccurate, but implausible, and indeed ridiculous, to suggest, for example, that Hamlet was written in the court of Genghis Khan.
Or, barring that wildly implausible explanation (because, indeed, many people saw the crash coming and warned about it), the argument is that acting stupidly and recklessly is no crime.
If function is indeed transparent, it should not be implausible to suppose that reference is determined by a description that specifies the function in question.
Implausible as it may seem, here indeed is a man's relationship with mushrooms, in fact, his extravagant love affair with them.
Indeed it is relativism that depends on an implausible and ahistorical form of detachment and impartiality, especially expressed in its methodological commitments to "reverential empathy and description".
