Um, no, I wasn't suggesting an edit, I was saying that the statement that the «implicit assumption that natural variability
in the
future will resemble that of the past... amounts to a
claim that we understand what governs natural variability» was based on a faulty
premise.
... «implicit assumption that natural variability
in the
future will resemble that of the past (1)... amounts to a
claim that we understand what governs natural variability (2)» was based on a faulty
premise.