I humbly request in every conversation whenever someone uses "distinct possibility" that they quantify it with a number. This phrase may be worse-than-useless:

I humbly request in every conversation whenever someone uses "distinct possibility" that they quantify it with a number. This phrase may be worse-than-useless: it creates the impression between people that they agree, but could mean a discrepancy between 0.0001% to 10%. I know this isn't central to what you're saying, I just want a better conversational norm around probabilities during conversations in the world.