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plausibility

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,239 of 15,258leans written

Plausibility is how believable something is. Test the plausibility, some plausibility, a story of low plausibility.

It is not the same as truth, and the gap between them is where confidence tricks live — a good lie is built for plausibility and the truth often is not. Deniability of the plausibility kind means arranging matters so that a denial cannot be disproved.

Definitions of plausibility

  1. 1nounplausibilityHow believable something is.C1

    “The detective doubted the plausibility of the suspect's story.”

plausibility is a quality of belief.

Where it comes from

  1. New Latin

    plausibilitās

  2. English, today

    plausibility

Borrowed from New Latin plausibilitās.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Logic & Argument

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plausibility in the wild

  • However, some philosophers, such as Alvin Plantinga, argue the plausibility of co-existence.

    Omnibenevolence

  • Belief bias is the tendency to judge the strength of arguments based on the plausibility of their conclusion rather than how strongly they justify that conclusion.

    Belief bias

  • Ideas or notions are never true; nevertheless, there are degrees of plausibility, and hence degrees of belief, which allow one to act.

    Academic skepticism

  • Fictive art is a practice that involves the production of objects, events, and entities designed to support the plausibility of a central narrative.

    Fictive art

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.