It was at least more plausible that the conspiracy theory of Mr. Charles Beade, ..."

His model was not immediately accepted, but it was seen to be the more plausible, as medical microbiology developed over the next 30 years or so.

So it is more plausible that Fosite is the older name and Forseti a folk etymology.

In his 1925 essay " A Defence of Common Sense ", he argued against idealism and scepticism toward the external world on the grounds that they could not give reasons to accept their metaphysical premises that were more plausible than the reasons we have to accept the common sense claims about our knowledge of the world that sceptics and idealists must deny.

Robinson wrote that, where the Gospel narrative accounts can be checked for consistency with surviving material evidence, the account in the Gospel of John is commonly the more plausible ; that it is generally easier to reconcile the various synoptic accounts within John's narrative framework, than it is to explain John's narrative within the framework of any of the synoptics ; and that, where in the Gospel Jesus and his disciples are described as travelling around identifiable locations, the trips in question can always be plausibly followed on the ground, which he says is not the case for any synoptic Gospel.

Sanders suggests that John's chronology, even when ostensibly more plausible, should nevertheless be treated with suspicion on the grounds that the Synoptic accounts are otherwise superior as historic sources.

The latter hypothesis seems the more plausible evolution determinant as the surface area of the head is minute compared to the remainder of the body, thus the energy required in producing long hair for the express purpose of " optical " amplification of UV light reflected from the snow seems counterproductive ( however, it's very likely that the trait was sustained due to a nuanced combination of multiple influences, given that human hunting-skills and ingenuity were such by 50, 000 years ago that said benefits in terms of ' comfort ' could have alternatively been derived from constructing head and ear warmers of fur from prey, etc .).

Baras adds that the third position is more plausible because it accepts parts of the passage as genuine, but discounts other parts as interpolations.

People are more likely to notice what they expect than things not part of their everyday experiences, and may mistake an unfamiliar stimulus for a familiar and more plausible version.

As a consequence of this Altfed and Cimbala have argued that belief in Nuclear Winter has made Nuclear Warfare more plausible and not less, contrary to what Carl Sagan and others have argued, for Nuclear Winter inspired the technological imperative toward improved accuracy and weaponry.

A more plausible theory to explain motion perception ( at least on a descriptive level ) are two distinct perceptual illusions: phi phenomenon and beta movement.

A scientifically minded physicalist may, following Andrew Melnyk, accept the first horn of the dilemma ; that is, a physicalist could live with the idea that the current definition of physicalism may very likely end up being false as long as he believes the proposition is more plausible than any currently formulated rival proposition, such as dualism.

Rosemary and Darroll Pardoe, authors of The Female Pope: The Mystery of Pope Joan, theorize that if a female pope did exist, a more plausible time frame is 1086 and 1108, when there were several Antipopes ; during this time the reign of the legitimate Popes Victor III, Urban II, and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and later sacked by the Normans.

Even such a question as to whether Khayyam was pro-or anti-alcohol gives rise to more discussion than might at first glance have seemed plausible.

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible ( or at least non-supernatural ) content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, parallel universes, aliens, and paranormal abilities.

A theodicy, on the other hand, is more ambitious, since it attempts to provide a plausible justification — a morally sufficient reason — for the existence of evil and thereby rebut the " evidential " argument from evil.

The origins of British Orientalist 19th century painting owe more to religion than military conquest or the search for plausible locations for naked females.

Although this interpretation has been disputed, a more plausible origin has yet to be suggested.

Which of the two tree structures is more plausible can be determined in part by empirical considerations, such as those delivered by constituency tests.

Their lower stakes and less than world-threatening dangers make this more plausible than a repetition of the perils of epic fantasy.

Tim Severin's book Seeking Robinson Crusoe ( 2002 ) unravels a much wider and more plausible range of potential sources of inspiration, and concludes by identifying castaway surgeon Henry Pitman as the most likely.

While this is at variance with the depictions by Plato and Xenophon, two of Socrates ' students, it is plausible that Aristophanes ' parody of Socrates is more accurate than their panegyrics.

He believed that another term meaning " the shallowness of a body of water " seemed much more plausible, given their territory along the coast of Long Island Sound.

Lie detection has a long history in mythology and fairy tales ; the polygraph has allowed modern fiction to use a device more easily seen as scientific and plausible.

He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.

And if he is so scornful of the rights of states, why not advocate a different sort of constitution that he could more sincerely support??

Unanimously they believe that the world would become a safer place if more of us -- and more Russians and Communist Chinese, too -- thought about accidental war.

What if one or more of them turn irrational or suddenly, coolly, decide to clobber the Russians??

The Negro faces as much, if not more, difficulty in fitting himself into an urban economy as he did in an agrarian one.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

( B ) A message runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to be relayed more than about six consecutive times.

And if Howard Rutstein felt impelled thereafter to formulate the ethics of the medical profession, his article in the Atlantic Monthly accomplished a good deal more.

Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.

Mr. Nehru is subjected to stern lectures on neutralism by our Department of State, and an American President observes sourly that Sweden would be a little less neurotic if it were a little more capitalistic ''.

nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

I do not suppose you ever heard of F. Scott Fitzgerald, living or dead, and moreover I do not suppose that, even if you had, his legend would have seemed to you to warrant more than a cluck of disapproval.

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

I still have the dress, and I hope to give it to the Smithsonian Institution as a memento, or, as I more fondly hope, to present it to a museum containing articles showing the daily lives of the Presidents -- if I can get it organized.

The poems which were addressed to her, while they are far more restrained than those of `` Love In Dian's Lap '', show no great technical advance over those of the `` Narrow Vessel '' group and are, if anything, somewhat more labored.

It is as if we, in our center of human observation, from time to time penetrate more deeply into the unknown.

Sturley quoted Quiney as having written on November 1 that if he had `` more monei presente much might be done to obtaine our Charter enlargd, ij faires more, with tole of corne, bestes, and sheepe, and a matter of more valewe then all that ''.

There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.

For the sad truth is that while one might write well without having read Bartleby The Scrivener, one is more likely, to write well if one has `` read it, and much else.

But if his purpose was to inspire terror, his action could hardly have miscarried more obviously.