Beautiful comment, but I’d add that whatever remains of the hypotheses you considered is often more improbable than your having missed an unconsidered alternative.
I just stumbled across this and felt this comment and the one above it were worth reminding everyone of in light the Knox case discussion. Way too many of our discussions have involved trying to come up with accounts of the crime that make sense of all the evidence. In retrospect I would labels such discussions as fun, but unhelpful.
Beautiful comment, but I’d add that whatever remains of the hypotheses you considered is often more improbable than your having missed an unconsidered alternative.
I just stumbled across this and felt this comment and the one above it were worth reminding everyone of in light the Knox case discussion. Way too many of our discussions have involved trying to come up with accounts of the crime that make sense of all the evidence. In retrospect I would labels such discussions as fun, but unhelpful.