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What are we to do in this case, since one cannot be 100% sure?  Neither scenario can be proven wrong but this means neither can be proven correct.

What can we be 100% sure of?

At the very least Paul stopped only 1 woman, and since more cannot be proven meaning that he used the singular ‘woman’ genericaly for all women therefore we are left with what only can be proven at the very least which is that Paul stopped 1 woman from teaching, and not all women. Now this we can be 100% sure of that is, this scriptural boundary that we’ve no right crossing.

It can be proven that Paul stopped at least 1 woman, but it cannot be proven that he stopped more than 1. Therefore there is no way to get from the least being 1 woman to ‘women’, that’s the impossible. So there is a scenario that can be proven correct and it’s the only one given in the passage.