They report having taken particular care in designing the instrument to distinguish acceptance of evolution based on the validity of the evidence supporting it and its plausibility and utility as an explanatory paradigm from beliefs about evolution based on feelings, personal convictions, or faith.
Stressing that "relativity requires the language of events, not of things" Saunders argues that the localizability condition loses its plausibility when it is applied to events: It makes no sense to postulate that the same event can not occur at two disjoint spatial sets at the same time.
Shot in eight days, for twenty-five theusand dollars, the film had a creepy, do-it-yourself plausibility that made it a worldwide, two-hundred-and-fifty-million-dollar hit.
And it gives plausibility to the henchman who sacrifices his life to take a final shot at James Bond.
(And, while I'm thrilled that Ivy Lynn won over Karen Cartwright, it defies plausibility that either of them would beat Audra McDonald).
As applied to the climate system, consider it a plausibility argument: the more rapidly and extensively the system is disturbed, the more we would expect that unexpected behaviors will emerge, and the further from expectations they will be.
It lends plausibility to the idea that some former loyalists, after years of internal rifts and months of defections, might be ready to shop Pol Pot to obtain acceptable terms for abandoning the armed struggle.
Interstellar wants to examine bigger issues, much of the science is unknown and if you stretch it beyond plausibility - as you always do in a movie like this, you are bound to end up with things not supported by current scientific knowledge.
In the eyes of most philosophers, it's not clear this solution is coherent, much less that it has any plausibility to it.
It's far bleaker and more monochromatic than The Hunger Games, but less thought-out and filled-in, lacking the mad Lisztomania costuming and general exuberance, and it steadily loses plausibility and coherence as it moves towards its climax.
