 If this kind of situation were to occur often, or for significant evidence claims in a scientific domain, it would make a shambles of the empirical objectivity of that science. It would completely undermine the empirical testability of such hypotheses and theories within that scientific domain. Under these circumstances, although each scientist employs the same sentences to express a given theory \(h_i\), each understands the empirical import of these sentences so differently that \(h_i\) as understood by \(\alpha\) is an empirically different theory than \(h_i\) as understood by \(\beta\). (Indeed, arguably, \(\alpha\) must take at least one of the two sentences, \(h_1\) or \(h_2\), to express a different proposition than does \(\beta\).) Thus, the empirical objectivity of the sciences requires that experts should be in close agreement about the values of the likelihoods.[7] 