This is made plausible, in his eyes, through the selective interpretation of science, for example in relation to the effects of certain pesticides on bees.
Those ambitions, he said, have been made plausible in part by revenue realized from an increase of about 30 percent in ticket prices last year.
This supposition — the prospect of a shrewd old king looking far beyond the end of his own reign — is made plausible by Penn's gripping account of the Tudor monarch's final hours.
But at least the piece is made plausible on stage, so that the static, oratorio-like sections of the sumptuous score are not as incongruous as they sometimes seem, and its story of a clash between Christian restraint (as embodied in King Roger) and the prospect of pagan, Dionysian abandonment presented by the arrival of the enigmatic Shepherd does acquire some weight and relevance.
Most cosmological theories imply that the universe is expanding, with the galaxies receding from one another (as is made plausible by observations of the red shifts of their spectra), and that the universe as it is known originated in a primeval explosion at a date of the order of 15 × 109 years ago.
This may be made plausible by referring to empirically based indicators.
Perhaps this claim is made plausible by how we often actually determine the times at which our experiences occur.
Well, if we remain agnostic about how the position could be made plausible, we can save FM, while, if we choose version (a) or (b) to make it plausible, we lose it.
Further, it is made plausible that the headache attacks are but one aspect of a more complex syndrome of central dysregulation manifesting as sleep-related complaints, sub-clinical autonomic dysregulation and of course the severe attacks of unilateral headache.
It turns out that if it is to be made plausible in this way, a lot depends on accepting Korsgaard's arguments against realism; but then, as we have seen, many have always suspected that some commitment to anti-realism is required to make a transcendental argument convincing.
Of course, the prospects of providing a solution would be satisfying if it could be made plausible that in some cases it is in people's powers to do things which are inconsistent with hard facts about the past, not just soft facts.
