wedrifid comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 03 August 2013 04:16:23PM 10 points [-]

"[W]hen you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." -- Sherlock Holmes

Technically true. Some notable 'improbable' things that remain are the chance that you screwed up your thinking or measuring somewhere or that you are hallucinating. (I agree denotatively but are wary about the connotations.)