Sentence examples for plausible conception from inspiring English sources

Surely a more plausible conception of God couldn't hurt.

Here an independently plausible conception of conversational exchange comes to her aid.

We then propose a plausible conception of design versus science, and offer several arguments for considering design and science distinct, albeit related, concepts.

The most plausible conception of the ideal of equality of welfare incorporates whatever is the best theory of human good or welfare.

On the approach of Boolos and those who follow him in rejecting 'singularism', a restricted conception of the PCO is simply a more plausible conception.

Hamkins defends the multiverse as an independently plausible conception of set theory, and he argues that the motivation for accepting it comes from within mathematical practice.

There are equally plausible conceptions of respect and civility which favor presenting others with the whole truth as we see it when engaged in moral or political debate, rather than restricting ourselves to shared or common reasons.

And since there are necessarily false propositions, that is, propositions that are true in no possible world, it is plausible, on this conception of propositions, to identify these propositions with the empty set.

Rawls argues that a utilitarian principle of justice dictating simply the maximization of overall social well-being would not be accepted in his original position and is accordingly less plausible than the conception of justice embodied in his own two principles and the construction that leads to them.

Clearly this claim is much more plausible with the stronger conception of rationality that McDowell is urging than the weaker conception limited to mere deductive relations.

On the alternative modal conception, 'it is plausible that p' is not a matter of degree.