"uncompromising, single-minded"

[Richard Jensen]

Thomas Lammers wrote:

> I'm not so sure.  If they don't "paint the same picture" I would say I'd
> falsified both.  I think I'd like to hear how cladisticians would feel
> about this.

I don't agree with this.  The fact that my data have produced two competing
hypotheses doesn't preclude the possibility that one of them is correct.
Besides,
how can we falsify something that we cannot know to be true?

Dick

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