Yvain comments on Rationality Quotes - September 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Yvain 03 September 2009 03:09:19PM *  6 points [-]

"What's that saying?" he said, smiling crookedly. "When you've eliminated the impossible, whatever it is that remains--- "

"--- however improbable, must be the truth. Yes, the problem is, the man who wrote that believed in faeries, and that he could photograph them."

  • S. M. Stirling, The Peshawar Lancers
Comment author: Douglas_Knight 05 September 2009 06:42:54PM 5 points [-]

believed in faeries, and that he could photograph them.

Better than fairies he couldn't photograph.

Comment author: sketerpot 06 September 2009 05:26:14PM 0 points [-]

Sadly, there are other ways to make the fairies unfalsifiable. ("They must be hiding today! Maybe tomorrow!")