If our cognitive limitations prevent us from assigning probabilities to defensive stories, those same limitations equally prevent us from asserting the stories are 'not unlikely', making the asymmetric epistemic privilege claimed by the defense illegitimate.
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(Used to characterize the unwarranted assumption underlying IBE)
A special predisposition or capacity on the part of human inquirers to reliably hit upon the absolutely best explanation when surveying possible explanations of data.
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
illegitimate(as used in political philosophy)
Not valid, justified, or acceptable according to proper rules or principles; lacking authority or rightful power.