> "My car is broken, what's wrong?"

As with other posts this is treating what i asked as a request for a
solution to a real world problem.
That was not what I intended and not what I THOUGHT I asked - although
it's easy to not be clear on such :-).

The query was simpler than it appeared. People are reading into it
things I didn't intend.

The question was meant more to be a philosophical one. The real world
example was provided to give it some flesh but the details were not
pertinent to the point of the question. Much more could be and has
been looked at but not relevant to the basic phiolosophical query. The
subject line is what it's about - more or less - What would/does Occam
think ?

..

So.

 > "My car is broken, what's wrong?"
Isn't what the question was about.

I'll copy and reformat part of  my last post which put the question again.
If your variable width font is not what GMail decides mine should be
this may not be as tidily indented as mine is:


Read back two of my posts in this thread if interested in the whole
text, but the gist is this:

"Given either

            a likely cause

               or

           an extremely improbable cause

of a problem with multiple occurrences

               AND

a single known example in which the cause is the extremely unlikely cause"

do you "prefer"

             the probable cause because it is most probable
                      or
             the improbable cause because it has for certain happened once =
and,

as even one occurrence is mind boggling, this suggests that it may not be a=
s
improbable as it appears.

> For example, assuming you are talking about your lights,

You could assume I was talking about some of one of them if it helped
with the philosophy :-)


          Russell
--=20
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