Sentence examples for plausible premises from inspiring English sources

From here, Nicholson uncoils the plot with great relish, neatly manipulating plausible premises into more and more absurd outcomes.

As we have just seen, (1) and (2) are very plausible premises.

There are, however, two powerful theorems to the effect that such a description is subject to severe constraints: QM, given certain at least prima facie plausible premises, cannot be supplemented by an HV theory.

The Slingshot Argument derives from the assumption that necessarily co-obtaining states of affairs are identical, together with further prima facie plausible premises, the conclusion that there is only one fact.

(Of course, there further two alternatives are crucial to Lewis' overall analysis of the passage: essentially, Lewis suggests that Anselm equivocates between an invalid argument with plausible premises and a valid argument with question-begging premises. In this respect, Lewis' analysis is quite different from the other analyses currently under discussion).

I think both the social premise and the technological premise are plausible premises, you know, hundreds of years in the future.

All good farce starts from a plausible premise: a randy shrink seeks to divest a would-be secretary of her clothes in order to seduce her.

Like many of the better suspense thrillers, from "Psycho" to "Jaws" to "The Silence of the Lambs," the original "Crazies" was based on a plausible premise as well as one with an ecological subtext.

Recent research calls into question this intuitively plausible premise and, indeed, indicates that intuition can be an unreliable guide to constructing successful prediction methods.

This approach begins with the plausible premise that people like those currently enduring absolute poverty in sub-Saharan Africa will likely continue to be vulnerable to horrifically corrupt and incompetent domestic governance until the larger geo-political context is dramatically improved via the construction of international institutions, like the International Criminal Court.

There is a 'Moorean' move that says that the premise that there is one cloud in the sky is more plausible than the premises that would have to be used in an argument against supervaluationism.