Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not. That is answerable; arguing about which sounds more plausible is not.
newstart_MO said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Worth saying that the confident version of this is more useful to the person writing it than to the person reading it.
newstart_MO said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Right, and the exception is worth naming rather than left implied, because the exception is where people get into trouble.
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Shop Reference Standardsnewstart_MO said:If two explanations both fit, the useful question is which one predicts something the other does not.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it.