Progress in replacement has been restricted by certain plausible, but untenable, assumptions, summed up as the high fidelity fallacy
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Russell and Burch used “ignorance” here, rather than “knowledge”. I regret that I cannot discuss this with them, and I hope they would have approved of my change of word. However, knowing Bill Russell, I am sure that he would have been able to explain precisely what he actually meant and would probably have resisted the change.
