(urth) Pike's ghost

[James Wynn]

On 11/28/2011 5:56 PM, António Marques wrote:
>> On 11/28/2011 5:00 PM, António Marques wrote:
>>> - You (as many others) often like to assert "there's no reason to
>>> believe X" when in fact it's merely that "though the odds are for X,
>>> it may well be otherwise".
>>
>> Unfortunately, there are no odds-makers in literary criticism. Perhaps
>> you mean "though THERE ARE REASONS for X, it may well be otherwise".
>> Everybody thinks his theory is the most likely.
>
> This isn't about theories. This is about when something looks like a 
> duck and quacks like a duck.

If it is you own theory, it always quacks.