Posted by Robert Hill on February 24, 2009 at 22:01:49 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Black swans in England? posted by Mike Field on February 24, 2009 at 21:53:22:
Exactly. Which they couldn't have done without additional corroborative evidence, the point I was making.
And my point was that he didn't mean "prove" in the strongest sense. He meant convince people who might otherwise suspect him of innocent error, not of deception.