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To: exDemMom
I communicated a hypothesis

By saying "I'm certain"? Is that the language with which hypotheses are typically communicated in your circles?

81 posted on 10/22/2017 3:48:54 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: NobleFree
By saying "I'm certain"? Is that the language with which hypotheses are typically communicated in your circles?

By using the term "I'm certain," I am actually assigning a high level of probability to the possibility that my statement will be demonstrated to be true when evidence becomes available.

"In my circles," that is, in my professional life, I have actually used a hierarchical list of words which linguistic experts have demonstrated are understood to mean various levels of probability. By saying "I'm certain," I am actually saying that I have determined that there is a 90 or 95% probability that the hypothesis is true, based on the evidence and assumptions used to formulate it.

90 posted on 10/22/2017 4:32:06 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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