Metkagram · Contrast · evidence-direction
X suggests Y vs This explains X but not Y
How to choose: Are you calibrating evidence that supports a hypothesis, or challenging a hypothesis because it leaves an important fact unexplained?
Core distinction
CLF051 moves from evidence toward a hypothesis while explicitly stopping short of proof. CLF058 moves in the opposite evaluative direction: it tests an explanation against the evidence and exposes a material observation that the explanation fails to cover.
First pattern · CLF051
[X] suggests that [Y], but it doesn't prove it.
Distinguish suggestive evidence from proof.
- EN
- [X] suggests that [Y], but it doesn't prove it.
- DE
- [X] deutet darauf hin, dass [Y], beweist es aber nicht.
Second pattern · CLF058
This explains [X], but it doesn't explain [Y].
Expose an explanatory gap in a hypothesis.
- EN
- This explains [X], but it doesn't explain [Y].
- DE
- Das erklärt [X], aber nicht [Y].
Examples
CLF051
Formula: [X] suggests that [Y], but it doesn't prove it.
Example: The repeated timeout suggests that the queue is overloaded, but it doesn't prove it.
CLF058
Formula: This explains [X], but it doesn't explain [Y].
Example: The retry theory explains the duplicate, but it doesn't explain the missing first event.