different between plausible vs qualophile

English

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis (“deserving applause, praiseworthy, acceptable, pleasing”), from the participle stem of plaudere (“to applaud”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pl??z.?.b?l/, /?pl??z.?.b?l/

Adjective

plausible (comparative more plausible, superlative most plausible)

1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; conceivably true or likely

   • 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).

2. Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious.

   a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion

3. (obsolete) Worthy of being applauded; praiseworthy; commendable; ready.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Hacket to this entry?)

   • 1955, Lincoln and the Bluegrass: Slavery and Civil War in Kentucky

     […] a coachman named Richard, who was described as a "sensible, well-behaved yellow boy, who is plausible and can read and write."

Derived terms

• plausible deniability
• plausibility
• plausibly

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis.

Adjective

plausible (masculine and feminine plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Derived terms

• plausiblement

Further reading

• “plausible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “plausible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “plausible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plausible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

plausible (plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Further reading

• “plausible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Adjective

plausible m or f (plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin plausibilis.

Adjective

plausible (plural plausibles)

1. plausible

Further reading

• “plausible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

Etymology

quale +? -o- +? -phile

Noun

qualophile (plural qualophiles)

1. A cognitive scientist who endorses qualia as being unmeasurable by heterophenomenology.

Quotations

• 1994. Daniel Dennett, Get Real, in Philosophical Topics, vol. 22, no. 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 1994, pp. 505-568 [1]

  "figment, for instance. It is an attractive feature to qualophiles until I find a suitably abusive way of characterizing it, and I am always gratified when some brave qualophile admits that, yes, something along the lines of figment as just what she was hankering for. "

• 1997 Joseph Levine Consciousness Located: You'll Wonder Where the Yellow Went. Psycoloquy: 8(04)

  "So what is the explanatory problem that bothers the qualophile (to use Dennett's term)? Right now I'm looking at the red diskette case beside my computer. My perceptual state possesses a certain reddish qualitative character. What explains that feature of my perceptual state? " [2]

• 2005 A high-level natural individual Deep Thoughts

  "The real killer is this. Rosenberg set out to explain qualia, but at the end of the day it seems to me your real qualophile would say: yes, that's all very interesting, Gregg - thing is, I can imagine all of that happening without my actually experiencing the real redness of red. I don't see anything in your theory which actually catches the vivid reality of subjective experience. Now of course, in my eyes all talk of qualia is so much hot air, but I don't see why that would be any less plausible than the case for qualia was in the first place." [3]