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What does plausible mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word plausible? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible
  2. Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.
  3. (obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.
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It is intuitively plausible, yet many philosophers, especially pragmatists and Wittgensteinians, reject it.
It has come up with the plausible, although ridiculous, excuse that it has software problems with 103,000 handsets and so has had to recall them.
One cannot exactly say that this solution, though plausible and well grounded, has been accepted by subsequent scholars.
I consider that on balance, on the material before me, this explanation is plausible.
Nobody can know what kind of world will result from the interplay of these forces, but it is possible to envisage plausible futures.
The latter explanation appears more plausible, because only 12 of 25 cases displayed this aberrancy.

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