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by sixtyj 217 days ago
If there are two contradictory conclusions you should ask for the third one, independent on the previous ones.
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The year is 1846, and a doctor has a radical new idea: doctors should wash their hands between performing autopsies and delivering babies!

You're not sure of whether this is a good idea or not, so you ask various physicians, and the consensus is unanimous: the very suggestion is offensive, do you think doctors are unclean?

A clear conclusion has been achieved.

Are you implying that every new, unproven idea is a good one?
You’re right. My comment doesn’t make sense.