Noun
Something worthy of praise.
The quality of being plausible; speciousness.
Anything plausible or specious.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil. Randall Jarrell
Rank beliefs not according to their plausibility but by the harm they may cause. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one. Ambrose Bierce
My next speculation is more difficult, and is addressed to those who not only take too terrestrial a view, but who deny the plausibility - nay, the possibility - of the existence of an unseen world at all. I reply we are demonstrably standing on the brink, at any rate, of one unseen world. William Crookes
Two societies confronting each other with conflicting universes will both develop conceptual machineries designed to maintain their respective universes. From the point of view of intrinsic plausibility the two forms of conceptualization may seem to the outside observer to offer little choice. Peter L. Berger
But mere plausibility did not make the statement true. Charles Sheffield