Sentence examples for valid and plausible from inspiring English sources

Valid and plausible arguments against the "conquest of space" could be raised only if they were to show that the whole enterprise might be self-defeating in its own terms.

Importantly, the degree to which causal conclusions are valid and plausible rests entirely on the degree to which these conditions are met.

As Charles Jones has put it, these valid and plausible objections to world government do not show that "the status quo is preferable to some alternative arrangement" (1999, 229).

The first step was to obtain a valid and plausible dbh for each tree at each time period in order to compute the competition indices as accurately as possible.

Ultimately, readers are left to form their own interpretations as to which, if any, of the numerous contradictory viewpoints presented by the characters are valid or plausible, and which are simply satirical gags and shaggy dog jokes.

The conclusion may seem shocking, but the argument is valid, and the premises seem plausible.

But every student gives the subject his or her own personal touch and interpretation, and almost all the design ideas are valid, plausible and practicable, which demonstrates the fact that there is no single way of doing things, no preconceived formulas, nothing is right or wrong in itself, a priori.

Four groups of inferences were obtained by combining logicality and plausibility: "valid-plausible", "invalid-implausible", "valid-implausible", and "invalid-plausible".

Although error in measurement of adiposity change could explain why we did not find that it wholly mediated exercise-induced estradiol changes, the use of valid and reliable measures makes this possibility less plausible.

Yet, I am baffled at some of the brow-furrowing US press coverage suggesting he has been romanticised here, as if only cynicism were dramatically valid or plausible.

This is forthright and plausible.