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Author: ImmortalistImmortalist Date: Sep 14, 2008 21:32
On Sep 14, 6:08 pm, "curmudgeon" bresnan.net> wrote:> "When you have eliminated the impossible,
> whatever remains,
> no matter how improbable,
> must be the truth."
>
> *Sherlock Holmes*
>
> Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
> 1859 - 1930
I would instead say "When you have eliminated the impossible, some or
all of whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth,
if and only if the truth is not impossible."
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Author: ShrikebackShrikeback Date: Sep 15, 2008 09:53
On Sep 14, 9:32 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:> On Sep 14, 6:08 pm, "curmudgeon" bresnan.net> wrote:
>>> "When you have eliminated the impossible,
>> whatever remains,
>> no matter how improbable,
>> must be the truth."
>
>> *Sherlock Holmes*
>
>> Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
>> 1859 - 1930
>
> I would instead say "When you have eliminated the impossible, some or
> all of whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth,
> if and only if the truth is not impossible."
A far less controversial proposition, to be sure.
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Author: The Borg QueenThe Borg Queen Date: Sep 15, 2008 18:58
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On Sep 14, 9:32 pm, Immortalist yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sep 14, 6:08 pm, "curmudgeon" bresnan.net> wrote:
>>> "When you have eliminated the impossible,
>> whatever remains,
>> no matter how improbable,
>> must be the truth."
>
>> *Sherlock Holmes*
>
>> Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
>> 1859 - 1930
>
> I would instead say "When you have eliminated the impossible, some or
> all of whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth,
> if and only if the truth is not impossible."
A far less controversial proposition, to be sure.
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Author: T-minus108T-minus108 Date: Sep 15, 2008 19:04
On Sep 15, 9:58 pm, "The Borg Queen" homesweethome.com> wrote:
> Sherlock Holmes was a detective and not a philosopher.
> He was applying the statement to solving cases not to the meaning of the
> universe!!! ;)
> The Borg Queen
But isn't the universe the most important 'case'?
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Author: The Borg QueenThe Borg Queen Date: Sep 15, 2008 19:17
"T-minus108" gmail.com> wrote in message
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On Sep 15, 9:58 pm, "The Borg Queen" homesweethome.com> wrote:
> Sherlock Holmes was a detective and not a philosopher.
> He was applying the statement to solving cases not to the meaning of the
> universe!!! ;)
> The Borg Queen
But isn't the universe the most important 'case'?
>
But how would you apply this on a universal scale?
If you take the quote
"When you have eliminated the impossible,
whatever remains,
no matter how improbable,
must be the truth."
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