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Arthur Conan Doyle’s maxim, “Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be true,” sounds like a pluralist maxim to me, and you brought it up at the beginning of the liberal sciences even though you are a monist?
Absolutely not. Quite the opposite. If there is one truth and you have two options for interpreting it: if one is impossible (contradictory) what remains is only the second, even if it is improbable.
Oh, I didn't understand that. I understood him to mean that there are a thousand (for example) possibilities, and when you eliminate those that are impossible, all the remaining possibilities (in his language, "what remains") must be true, and even the least likely possibility is true because it is possible (not contradictory).
A study of the context of the mimra will clarify its meaning for me.
But you understood that there are only two options, so it turns out that only one of them is true, which is actually a monist.
He meant what I wrote.
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