It's all relative: Explanationism and probabilistic evidence theory

I provide a brief comment on Allen & Pardo's Relative plausibility and its critics. I agree that their relative plausibility explanationism (RPE) provides an attractive positive description of fact finding in litigation. But unlike Allen & pardo, I see RPE as methodologically consistent with the leading conceptions of evidentiary probabilism, Bayesianism and likelihoodism. Thus, I argue, the best view of the relationship between the approaches is that RPE is a friendly amendment to-because it provides a positive foundation for-probabilism.