Plausible vs Sensical - What's the difference?
plausible | sensical |
Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.
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Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
Using specious arguments or discourse. (rfv-sense)
(obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
(neologism) That makes sense; showing internal logic; sensible.
* 1986 , Fred D'Agostino, Chomsky's System of Ideas , Clarendon Press, p. 189:
* 1998 , William Storm, After Dionysus: a theory of the tragic , Cornell University Press,
* 2001 , Alexandra Styron, All the Finest Girls , Back Bay,
* 2004 , John C. Welchman, Mike Kelley: Minor Histories , MIT Press, "Introduction",
As adjectives the difference between plausible and sensical
is that plausible is seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse while sensical is (neologism) that makes sense; showing internal logic; sensible.plausible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- In short, the twin assumptions that syntactic rules are category-based, and that there are a highly restricted finite set of categories in any natural language (perhaps no more than a dozen major categories), together with the assumption that the child either knows'' (innately) or ''learns (by experience) that all rules are structure-dependent ( =category-based), provide a highly plausible model of language acquisition, in which languages become learnable in a relatively short, finite period of time (a few years).
- a plausible''' pretext; '''plausible''' manners; a '''plausible delusion
- a plausible speaker
- (Bishop Hacket)
Derived terms
* plausibilitysensical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A nonsensical sentence, then, is one which is inconsistent with S'', while a sensical sentence is one which is consistent with ''S .
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- It contains no intrinsic propositions concerning whether its effects are sensical or not.
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- There I waited, exiled from the realm of sensical thoughts, for Lou's sons to find me.
p. xxii:
- So it starts with the sensical , and through shifts in syntax and cadence, goes completely abstract.
