Posted: Jan 25, 2012 3:07 pm
logical bob wrote:
The bigger point is that history doesn't handle probabilities in a mathematical way and has never claimed to do so.
This may be true - but then we're left with the constant refrain of 'more likely' or 'more probable' as used in arguments about history merely being sounds without much meaning if we're to be left in the dark about how much more likely or probable.