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In Reply to: Re: No! posted by Phil Tower on November 16, 2002 at 12:26:11:
You said, as your final sentence in your post: "However, if the protocol of the test is valid, failure to verify, it would seem to me, is just as valid for those particular cables in that particular system, as would be verification. "My point is that there is a sense in which failure to verify is not as valid as verification. Putting it a bit simplistically, verification represents proof but failure to verify does not represent disproof, it merely means that the hypothesis remains unproven. Verification removes doubt, failure to verify still leaves doubt as to whether the hypothesis is false or the test failed for some reason. When failure to verify occurs, the nature of the results and the number of times that verification has failed to be achieved can both serve to reduce the level of doubt, perhaps even to extremely small levels, but there still remains the in principle possibility that the hypothesis was correct and the test or tests have failed for some reason.
David Aiken
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