I don't consider anything other than root-beer with vanilla ice-cream to be a real float.

Before explicating the possibility of a non-textualist strategy let me address Philipse's arguments in favour of textualism as appropriate method in theology. Some of these arguments appeal to the religious traditions, and thus suggest that a believer qua believer (rather than qua historian) has to be originalist.

Tell me what was happening in the world when you were a little merboy. Was there television?

Perform an experiment n times; then if the designated outcome occurs m times, the experimental probability of that outcome is m/n.