Zen wrote:
No. The point is that since, to use your example, the person was in
Mexico, it was IMPOSSIBLE for him to have committed the crime, and he was
therefore eliminated as a suspect. Hence the original quote where after
the elimination of the IMPOSSIBLE, whatever is left, no matter how
IMPROBABLE, being the solution. The paraphrase makes no real sense,
because the suspect is discarded NOT for being probable, but because it was
impossible for him to have committed the crime. Sorry, Richard! Zen has
to agree with Sebastian-san on this one.
You guys are being obtuse. It was highly probable *until* contravening
evidence was found to make it impossible.
The phrase could read,
"When you eliminate the highly probable by finding evidence that
contraverts it, than what remains, however improbable, must be the
truth."
Most people don't need the clarifying phrase... it's understood.
I think you're being nitpicky for no reason other than to be nitpicky -
I think the meaning of the phrase is obvious. And therefore, I'm not
going to change it. Beeedah. :)