Metus comments on Open thread, 25-31 August 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion
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A more specific explanation is better than a general explanation in the scientific sense exactly because it is more easily falsifiable. Your sentence
is completely wrong, as the set containing the sine function is most certainly contained in the set of all analytic functions, making it more plausible that "some analytic function has roots at all multiples of pi" than to say the same of sine, assuming we do not already know a great deal of information about sine.
Plain and simply no. If evidence E implies A and B, formally E -> A&B, then seperately E -> A and E -> B are true, increasing the probability of both seperately, making your conclusion invalid.