Plausible Quotes
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To deal with the whole visual input at once, and make discriminations based on any combination of features in the field, would require too large a brain, or too much "previous experience" to be plausible.
Ulric Neisser -
A big lie is more plausible than truth.
Ernest Hemingway
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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
William Hazlitt -
We move from more or less plausible but really arbitrary assumptions, to elegantly demonstrated but irrelevant conclusions.
Wassily Leontief -
The hallmark of good science is the testing of a plausible hypothesis that is then either supported or rejected by the evidence.
Willie Soon -
A poet's fiction should at least be plausible.
Callimachus -
Having an exit strategy can be a social saver.... The key is keeping your little white lie plausible.
April Masini -
Page after page of professional economic journals are filled with mathematical formulas leading the reader from sets of more or less plausible but entirely arbitrary assumptions to precisely stated but irrelevant theoretical conclusions.
Wassily Leontief