Sentence examples for plausibility on from inspiring English sources

The idea that a system cannot spontaneously become better ordered but can readily become more disordered, even if left to itself, appeals to one's experience of domestic economy and confers plausibility on the law of increase of entropy.

But these moments also bring Mr. Gay beyond the boundary of the naturalistic plausibility on which the central drama depends.

At the other end of plausibility, on Saturday afternoon Steven Weinberg, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist at the University of Texas, Austin, will give the first of what is billed as a new series of special addresses about history called On the Shoulders of Giants.

Figure 4 HypTrails-computed Bayesian evidence for hypotheses plausibility on shared editing interest Wikipedia data.

The scenarios are intended to provide a range of plausibility on what the real future could be, but their ability to do so depends on the underlying assumptions.

Wisniewski and Murphy collected ratings on familiarity (participants indicated phrases they had "heard or seen before"), plausibility (on a scale of 1 to 7 with 1 being very weird and 7 being very plausible), and frequency of phrase occurrence based on number of hits from the Google Internet search engine (similar to the phrase-frequency measure used in the present study).

Reforms favouring PC systems are based on the plausibility of effects rather than on its base of evidence.

Li (2009) throws doubt on plausibility of clauses of disappearance as a sub-type of existentials, for she finds they seldom occur in actual texts.

First we selected pesticide compounds based on plausibility of biological connection to autism, physical characteristics, and community concerns.

The Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group is conducting methodological research on methods such as the use of logic models, subgroup analysis, applicability judgments and process evaluation as tools for assessing the plausibility of effects on health equity [ 48].

The success of their strategy depends on the plausibility of the original entailment intuitions turning on our implicitly assuming the additional premise in question.