Re: Baby X is bor nagain

On 23/06/2024 17:47, Tim Rentsch wrote:
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Yes, it's a serious suggestion, and I'm sorry if it came across as
condescending.  I did this search myself, and learned something from
it.  The important point is the "consistent with" is something of an
idiomatic phrase, and it doesn't mean "equivalent to" or "the same
as".  Maybe you already knew that, but I didn't, and learning it
helped me see what the quoted passage is getting at.

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We've established that the wife was in the house at the time when the
husband was killed.  Which is consistent with her having done the
murder.  But it doesn't by itself prove that she did the
murder.  However had we been able to show that she was elsewhere at the
time, that would not be consistent with her having done the murder,
and so she would be dropped as a suspect.