Sentence examples for plausible assertions from inspiring English sources

There are many plausible assertions about its origins and early history, but most of those are based on little firm documentation.

Butler even designed the show's narrative arc to evoke the logic of conspiracy theorists, who typically trot out their most plausible assertions (eg, the CIA is hiding something) before introducing their more ludicrous ones (eg, it's hiding the fact that it tried to kill the president).

"Get Like Me" is a diverting, if formulaic track centered on the plausible assertion that Banner's Chevy is cooler than yours.

This is a coherent, plausible assertion.

The Pentagon has denied this, but reporters who have visited destroyed villages found plausible local assertions that as many as 200 civilians were killed.

How plausible are these assertions?In this section The unbearable lightness of being overtaken Predators or prophets?

Scholars who find this assertion plausible connect it with Bacon's attraction to contemporary prophecies that have nothing to do with Bacon's scientific, mathematical, or philosophical writings".

Both experts suggested that Lomborg's assertions were plausible -- though a certain amount of calculus would be required to sort out what's what with any precision.

The reason is that it is a plausible condition of sincere assertion that a person who asserts that p believe that p; but one could certainly assert that p without believing that p. Analogously, a speaker who utters 'Hurrah' intuitively expresses enthusiasm, since it is a plausible condition of sincere expression that a person who utters 'Hurrah!' be enthusiastic.

In the five months since then, the governor and members of his team have failed to offer any plausible denial of that assertion.

While that "nearly 20percentt" statistic strikes me as being somewhat high, given that the mentally ill, with no substance abuse problems, commit only 3percentto4percentcent of violent crime, it is far more plausible than Kristof's assertion that "more than half of prisoners in the United States have a mental health problem".