Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-39385741-20200106144455/@comment-26907577-20200106191903

"Jacky720 is forgetting that everything we do around here are just thoughts and opinions, not actual theories."

Hey!

Not everything. Just most things. The bad things. If you want to make a theory, be my guest- and it's going to be a theory.

Aaaaand a bunch of potential motivation to create a theory.

A theory is created to answer known contradictions or improbabilities. A headcanon is created to provide personal justification. Simple as that. Don't attack personal justification. The question is: Do you want this to be a theory, or a headcanon?

Besides, theories should provide answers, not options. Given a fact and a headcanon, which is preferred? And why?

The fact obviously takes precedence. But there is reasoning for this. A headcanon always makes assumptions. The probability of an event A (P(A) in formal logic) is between 0 and 1. The probability of an event B (P(B)) is also between 0 and 1. The probability of both A and B (A∧B) is equal to P(A) times P(B). Since each probability is less than 1, P(A∧B) is always less than P(A).

If B is an assumption, this is still true.

So, making an assumption decreases the probability.

The most probable one is the sci-en-tif-ically accepted one.

Now, do you want to provide positive evidence to increase your odds?