"It is my conclusion that this transaction, involving established major leaguers and highly regarded young players and prospects, represents the exercise of plausible baseball judgment on the part of both clubs, does not violate any express rule of Major League Baseball and does not otherwise warrant the exercise of any of my powers to prevent its completion," Selig's statement said.
Arguments, at best, make certain value judgments plausible as hypotheses — and even then, only if grounded in experience and reflection on the wider consequences of acting on them.
It is plausible to think that judgments caused by a dysfunctional valuation system are not judgments over which the person has any control, even in the suitably deflationary and compatibilist sense of control in which it is often said that reasons-responsive mechanisms are controlled by agents.
Indeed, some have made plausible claims that our judgments may be somewhat better as a result.
This combination of retrospective and prospective responsibility is intuitively plausible and captures participants' judgments in our empirical studies.
This sort of cognitivism has no trouble explaining why it seems so plausible to see moral judgment as an expression of belief and as a matter of attributing properties to actions, institutions and characters.
Non-cognitivists, of course, need to explain why it seems so plausible to see moral judgment as an expression of belief and as a matter of attributing properties to actions, institutions and characters.
(We will consider another plausible example of overdetermination involving judgments about the much discussed 'Trolley cases' in section 3).
While we cannot discuss it in more detail here, we would like to mention that under certain plausible conditions it is impossible to transform judgments into other judgments that are not identical to the previous ones – in other words: if these conditions are satisfied, no opinion change occurs (for an extensive discussion of this phenomenon, including a formal proof, see [ 57]).
"Some of Woodward's judgments are shrewd and plausible," Michael Lind wrote in these pages in 1999.
