Plausible Quotes

“The most important rule when assessing abductive arguments is to consider alternative explanations. When we are presented with an explanation that sounds plausible, too often we simply accept it without noticing that there are other possible explanations that are equally plausible or more plausible.”

“Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.”

“Paradoxes are less paradoxical in their reference to truth than most of the most plausible axioms.”

“Wittgenstein likes to assert: "Whereof we cannot speak we must be silent". But skilfully using our hands and manipulating our thoughts can be plausible options to make ourselves understood. So, if we can’t say it, we can show and depict it. Whereof we cannot speak we can paint! ("Happy days are back again")”

“Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever been suggested. Intelligent design suffers from exactly the same objection as chance. It is simply not a plausible solution to the riddle of statistical improbability. And the higher the improbability, the more implausible intelligent design becomes. Seen clearly, intelligent design will turn out to be a redoubling of the problem. Once again, this is because the designer himself (/herself/itself) immediately raises the bigger problem of his own origin. Any entity capable of intelligently designing something as improbable as a Dutchman's Pipe (or a universe) would have to be even more improbable than a Dutchman's Pipe. Far from terminating the vicious regress, God aggravates it with a vengeance.”

“He had a suspicion of plausible answers”

“Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?”

“Only God can tell a truly plausible lie.”

“The problem with living with miracles was that they made everything seem plausible.”

“Woe to the leader whose arguments at the end of a war are not as plausible as they were at the beginning.”