The Bixby Letter

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Let us remove personalities from the issue.

Let's say there's an author Aye and an author Bee. We know (1) that Aye wrote certain works, and (2) that Bee wrote certain other works. But there are a number of works (3) that may have been written either by Aye or by Bee, we aren't sure whom, though a large percentage were probably by Bee.

The word "oxymoronic" occurs once, in a letter we shall call Dubium, among the works that may have been by Aye or by Bee, of which a large percentage were probably by Bee.

The word "oxymoronic" does not occur in any of the writings known to be by Aye, but "oxymoronic" occurs many times in the writings known to be by Bee.

Whom do we more reasonably conclude wrote Dubium, Aye or Bee?

And, is this, or is it not, a fair transposition of the question at hand?