PhantomWolf
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As to Aqua232, even though he appears to have gotten himself a rest at least, if not permanently... The court system is based on theories and the ability to falsify them, it's just that this is done in real time and via an advocatory process rather than by slowly and laborious work. The Prosecutor puts forward the People or Crown's case against the defendant and then provides the evidence that supports said theory. The Defence Counsel will then attempt to falsify that theory by showing where it breaks down and not true. The Jury's responsibility is to determine if the Defence actually managed to falsify the Prosecutor's theory, or if in the case where he has provided a counter theory, if that theory is reasonable enough to explain the evidence presented in such a way that it may in fact have occurred that way. Really the only way that is ultimately different is that when you do have competing theories neither of which can be falsified by the observational data presented, you don't determine the outcome based on Occam's razor and then attempt to get more data to decide which to accept as likely true.
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