Quotes About Plausibility

My friends and I have often discussed the plausibility of a connection between qualitatively bad music and quantifiably successful music, often citing the example of Candlebox and their paradoxical influence on culture.

As an actor, I like my films to be believable.

I don't worry about whether a character is likable, as long as the character is believable.

and so, in the very act of attacking the full story, Pip was somehow confirming its essential plausibility.

There are systems upon systems that are incredible but possessed of a pleasing architecture or a certain agreeable sensationalism. The metaphysicians of Tlön seek not truth, or even plausibility - they seek to amaze, astound. In their view, metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy. They know a system is naught but the subordination of all the aspects of the universe to one of those aspects - any one of them.

I hate [slavery] because it deprives the republican example of its just influence in the world—enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites—causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity.

The most coherent stories are not necessarily the most probable, but they are plausible, and the notions of coherence, plausibility, and probability are easily confused by the unwary.

As Talleyrand memorably said, 'The truth is whatever is plausibly asserted and confidently maintained.' If I tell you something three times you will believe it, said the Bellman, and usually we do.

as Aristotle might say, it is an improbable-possible.

Because, my friend, the more prosaic explanation is nearly always more probable.

Verisimilitude is something I am constantly seeking in fiction. I am looking for surface detail that makes something seem real.

Shouldn't children be taught critical, sceptical thinking from an early age? Shouldn't we all be taught to doubt, to weigh up plausibility, to demand evidence?

If you are trying to explain something improbable, it can never suffice to invoke an entity that is, in itself, at least as improbable.

It's not parole." The corps' deep-cover training came rocketing in across my mind like a flight of low-level strike jets, spinning vapor-trail lies on the edge of plausibility and half-known detail. Something inside me tilted with the joy of mission time. "You know what I went down for?

Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?

Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view.

If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.

A good argument must obey the rules of logic; express true premises; and have premises more plausible than their opposites.

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you're writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader's imagination will reject it.

Plausible deniability is a useful thing in Sinful.

Los hechos de guerra suenan pueriles en los tiempos de relativa paz, y que algo haya ocurrido no es suficiente para admitir su relato, no basta con que sea cierto para resultar plausible. La verdad se vuelve inverosímil a veces con el paso del tiempo; se aleja, y entonces parece fábula, o ya no más la verdad.

There is an air of plausibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and notions, taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience, that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of some, and to the laziness of others.

destitute as it is even of the merit of plausibility, must have originated in an intention to deceive the people, too palpable to be obscured by sophistry, too atrocious to be palliated by hypocrisy.

Why did you deceive me?" "Would you have listened to me if I had told you the truth straightaway? I did not have time to convince you. It was necessary to distort the truth for the sake of plausibility. Without this transitional stage you would