Joe's Doc "all systems go"

[Wes Mantooth]

(05-19-2021, 03:20 PM)Lucidus Wrote: When one assumes or predicts a very good chance of something happening, it doesn't follow that they are guaranteeing said assumption or prediction. Those are very different statements.

The key word you're missing in the post you quoted is "likely".  (I said guaranteeing success or predicting that it is likely).  Hell, I even put the example of the guarantee in parenthesis (We will roll the Vikings) before the "or" in that sentence.

Here is exactly what I wrote:  " I just don't get those that either throw out guarantees (We will roll the Vikings) or pretend that a certain level of success is likely."

If someone says there is a "very good chance" of something that pretty is much synonymous as "likely to happen".

Fwiw, I really don't know how I get dragged into these semantics so often on here.  This is only place I find myself in these types of silly debates.  The poster said there is a very good chance we go 4-0, and I countered that by questioning if he knows what "very good chance" means. 

It really is that simple.  If you're on his side, great.  If you're with me, and you think that is not likely to happen then that's fine too.  There's no sense breaking down such a simple statement any further.