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.
One reason for the high success rate is that a challenge grant from a major foundation confers instant plausibility on a recipient, impressing other donors with the seriousness of a project.
Irrespective of whether it is correct, James' contention certainly possesses prima facie plausibility: if one hears a succession of brief tones do-re-mi-fa-so, it is certainly natural to say that one also hear each tone flowing into its successor.
To evaluate the validity of the hypotheses, we will compare their plausibility against one another using statistical inference approach.
In die Stelle des Idealismus und Realismus gesetzt (GW 16, 287 ff).. Hegel's basic claim as to the identity of thinking and being in the object might be said to have some initial plausibility if one takes such a claim to be a somewhat metaphorical expression of the view that in our ways of thinking about objects some conceptual elements are invariably involved.
Although textbooks have suggested including plausible distractors in guidelines or rules for writing MC items (Haladyna and Downing, 1989; Haladyna, et al., 2002)—plausibility being one of the most important characteristics of distractors (e.g., Celce-Murcia et al., 1974)—there are no reliable references about distractors because little research has been conducted on this topic.
You may think it's all hoots and woos and tits in there, but in a rare moment of tender introspection we actually witness him call into question the real-world plausibility of one of his signature pseudo-obscene frat gestures.
Biological plausibility is one of the greatest strengths of the hygiene hypothesis.
Interestingly, a recent computer simulation study has demonstrated the plausibility of one of the evolving processes driven by replication parsimony in the scenario.
But ipsilateral risks also carry greater biologic plausibility, since one 2008 study showed that nearly 99% of the total electromagnetic energy deposited in the brain is absorbed at the side of the head where the phone is held during calls.
