(jjustwwondering) wrote in message om...
An editing error correction: the word "suffer" should be deleted in
the following sentence I wrote:
"The new overbold assumptions invoked to save the
belief consistency [suffer] violate consistency in another way,
because nobody is ready to accept similar assumptions
in *other* cases."

Or, this could be rephrased as follows:

*Ad hoc* assumptions, repeatedly invoked only to save a
belief set against new data, but not in other cases,
represent special pleading.
They may not violate logical consistency,
but they err against methodological consistency.