The Plausibility Problem: The Church And Same-Sex Attraction

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To identify leverage points for building a story a person has to draw on knowledge of the types of causes for events such as those that triggered the explanation process. This causal set is activated just-in-time in response to surprise or to ignorance. In the course of self-explaining, the causal set will be expanded and deepened, and a person’s mental model will become richer–the overall causal repertoire will be expanded. The leverage points people identify (the causes considered, and the cues noticed) will depend on the sophistication of the person’s mental model and the kinds of stories the person has considered in the past. So, stories determine the leverage points that are identified, and the leverage points identified will activate a set of causes and make certain cues more salient. The process of deepening From the very outset, the founders of Science Based Medicine have have emphasized the importance of plausibility in the critical evaluation of scientific claims in medicine. What exactly does “plausibility” mean, and how should we apply it in science? My simple definition of plausibility would be “the likelihood that a premise is true.” The application in science is a little more complicated. Cognitive strain. These gaps pose problems for assessing the story as plausible versus implausible. The cognitive strain makes it more difficult to accept a story as plausible. This feature aligns with the concept of bridging inferences ( Foster and Keane, 2015). We would hope that all our results would be True Positives, or True Negatives. If that were the case, all research studies would be conclusive. Unfortunately, science is never that simple. There are ways to reduce, but not eliminate False Negative, and False Positive Results. As we go through the elements of a hypothesis, and study design, we will modify the table above in a way that the area of each of the 4 cells in the grid, is proportional to the likelihood of each particular outcome. We describe the general methods and findings of these four categories in the next subsections. Philosophical/logical/analytical perspective

The fourth category, the Cognitive/Sensemaking Perspective, was more closely aligned with the field of Naturalistic Decision Making. Cognitive/sensemaking perspective Our account differs from theirs in a few important ways. First, we were considering natural events, such as the crash of Air France 447, rather than textual stimuli such as “The bottle fell off the shelf. The bottle smashed” vs. “The bottle fell off the shelf. The bottle melted.” Second, our account centers around story-building and state transitions as opposed to overall plausibility judgments of statements. Third, and most critical, our account hinges on the psychological strain of imagining the state transitions whereas Connell and Keane calculated plausibility in terms of the number of scenario versions that could be recalled or constructed given the way the stimulus material was primed.

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Here is a voice I need to hear and a book I am so grateful to have found. As a church leader, I seek to serve a broad community within my church family and beyond. Many in that community will identify as same-sex attracted or have related questions. I have longed for a book like this that helps me support, teach, and pastor well. I have longed for a book like this that helps me support, teach, and pastor well. Our notion of plausibility is psychological, not philosophical, linguistic or computational. Plausibility judgments entail plausibility gaps that need to be filled in. These plausibility gaps stimulate curiosity. People search for additional information that will fill in the gaps.

In this personal and emotionally honest book, we’re invited to listen to Ed’s story as someone whose primary identity is in Christ, and who finds himself attracted to other men. Ed explores the plausibility problem – the missteps in current Christian approaches to homosexuality – and challenges Christians to form more biblical communities in which celibate, same-sex attracted people can flourish. - The Rt Revd Tim Dakin It is also all about trusting God, and believing that you really are one of His beloved children in Jesus. There is a sure reminder that sex is just a foretaste of heaven; go for the real thing, rather than abandoning it for illicit limited experiences. Keys to success in these areas include educating ones emotions to know what is real and what is delusional and being supported by one’s church family. Ed Shaw's book is a great contribution to both. In T1329/04 the Board held that even if supplementary post-filed evidence may in the proper circumstances also be taken into consideration, it may not serve as the sole basis to establish that the application solves indeed the problem it purports to solve. In other words, if the technical effect is not plausible at the priority/filing date e.g. if the disclosure in the application as filed did not make it plausible that this problem had been solved, post-filed evidence could not be used to remedy the deficiency. Klein et al. (2021) investigated the process of forming explanations–the ways that people react when they encounter unexpected, anomalous, and surprising items of information and how they try to diagnose what happened. We collected a corpus of 73 cases that were a convenience sample. We did not formulate criteria in advance because we wanted to cast a wide net that did not systematically exclude any types of incidents.

A more recent decision (T 0488/16) appeared to set the plausibility threshold at a higher level. In the patent in question, there was no data in the application as filed supporting the efficacy of the claimed compounds, only a mere assertion: “ Compounds described in the following Examples have been tested in one or more of these assays, and have shown activity”. This was not considered to be enough to meet the plausibility threshold, and so even though the proprietor had provided post-filed evidence showing that the technical problem had indeed been solved, it could not be taken into account.