Sentence examples for plausible replies from inspiring English sources

There are two plausible replies, both familiar by now.

Many of these objections have generated some plausible replies (Rescher 1985).

To both queries the show gives the only plausible reply: yes; no; maybe; sometimes.

I wandered into the lobby, hoping to strike up a conversation about Wagner and the Wesendoncks, but, when asked what business I had being there, I could think of no plausible reply, and retreated.

In this case, a plausible reply is simply that fiction delivers no guidance to conceptual investigations: conceivability may well be a guide to possibility, but literary fantasy is by itself no evidence of conceivability (van Inwagen 1993: 229).

Though not ultimately successful, a first and plausible reply to the representation problem is to deny that mental representation is a problem for an overarching naturalism on the grounds that representational capacities are to be found throughout the natural, physical world.

"It's mathematically plausible," he replied, joking that he hoped a friend who had written about space-traveling pachyderms was prescient, to speed up Republican colonization of outer space.

On one plausible line of reply, Descartes does not yet intend to be establishing the metaphysical result; rather, the initial intended result is merely epistemic.

Perhaps the most plausible and challenging such reply would be to deny the main premise lying behind the objection, concerning the rich and integrated nature of phenomenally conscious experience.

But there have been various plausible explanations given in reply to Rawls' proposed Difference Principle why relative position is a value that should be weighed against the value of the absolute position of the least advantaged rather than subordinated lexically to it.

Or do you snow your rapt young audience with a plausible but completely made-up reply?