Ken,Have you read Mark Goodacre's 'Fatigue in the Synoptics" or his introductory book: The Synoptic Problem: A Way Through the Maze, which has a section on the argument from fatigue? It doesn't sound like you have grasped the argument or why it would be convincing to anyone. You're just saying that there are other possibilities. If you had to state the argument that you are dismissing as not convincing, how would you do it?
I can see why fatigue is convincing as a basis for determining precedence for sure. and I'm not commenting on Goodacre's overall theory here only the one example of the seed, I should have been clearer.
The observation he made is very interesting, I'm just not convinced one couldn't make it work the other way as well and if that could be done for the seed, why not the others. No I haven't read his book but it would be nice if someone were to take all Goodacres examples and see what it would look like reversed
so it's not that Goodacre isn't convincing, it's that to be convincing it needs stress testing to see how it handles the other direction that would be really interesting
Statistics: Posted by davidmartin — Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:37 am