User blog comment:DE-Note/New Character?/@comment-24891101-20151024041808/@comment-24891101-20151024060327

My assumption about the correctness of my work is merely an operant, practical one. Given my math has not been contested or my assumptions challenged, I'll continue to defend my work in the field, because a competing model has not been developed, and so this is the best we have. It is as close to true as we've gotten, and as long as it's not off by an order of magnitude or so, it's served its purpose. It's a best guess.

Nor is there any reason to simply assume it is flatly incorrect, ignoring the reasoning in its favor. What I mean by this is to reject the statement, "This must be wrong, necessarily." It is not to endorse the statement, "This has to be right, necessarily." P(A)≠0, not P(~A)=0.