Sentence examples for only as plausible from inspiring English sources

Brooker has always understood that his nearly-lands are only as plausible as their most jarring detail.

It is only as plausible as the Kantian framework itself is.

This position is only as plausible as the explanation on offer of the intuitive contingency of ordinary objects like Bush.

The coherence theorist's response to the argument for foundationalism is, of course, only as plausible as the coherence theory of justification (See coherence theories of justification).

Examples of essential properties tend to be controversial, largely because the most plausible examples of a certain object's possessing a property essentially are only as plausible as the thesis that that object possesses those properties at all.

Since the calipers had a resolution of 10 µm, and since the whisker was tapered, we regard tip diameter values only as plausible upper bounds on the true value.

It seems just as plausible a reason.

And though this storm was the lesser of the two -- closing airports but not highways, dropping only about half the snow the storm did that shut down the region in January 1996 -- it was still strangely reassuring, if only as a plausible reminder of what true winter really means.

What in most cities might seem plausible only as some sort of Sacha Baron Cohen-style provocation is just another weeknight in the cultural Galapagos that is New Orleans.

But if that very same New Yorker cover had been drawn in a balloon over the head of a deranged citizen — or a ruthless political operative — it would have appeared as plausible only in the mind of that person.

4. "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution," as Dobzhansky (1973) famously quipped. 5. See van Valen (1973) who, however, only presents this formulation only as one that is "plausible".