More ad hoc it becomes the more unlikely it becomes because more unsupported claims are made. This is roughly an informal version of Solomonoff's theory of inductive inference.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal