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on the Obligation to Consider Others’ Opinions
I noticed a contradiction within myself. I was emailing with someone about the financial morass of ≥2008, and he said: “I didn’t read any more than the first paragraph of that article, because I could already tell I wasn’t going … Continue reading
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Tagged argumentation, being right, belief, closed, debate, duty, having opinions, intelligent design, logic, morals, obligation, open, open-minded, open-mindedness, opinions, respect, rhetoric, theory of evolution, valid, validity
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I Need A Speech Bubble To Appear Over My Head When I Talk So I Can Diagram the Bayesian Uncertainty In My Statements
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Tagged Bayesian, belief, certainty, faith, hunch, language, logic, mathematics, philosophy, prior, prior distribution, probability, probability distributions, reasoning, statistics, supposition, truth, uncertainty, unsure, validity
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The actual science of logic is conversant at present only with things either certain, impossible, or entirely doubtful, none of which (fortunately) we have to reason on. Therefore the true logic for this world is the calculus of Probabilities, which … Continue reading
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Tychonoff’s theorem gives confidence that our definitions of compactness and product topology are the correct (i.e., most useful) ones. (Tychonoff’s theorem says the product of any collection of compact topological spaces is compact.) SOURCE: The Encyclopedia Wikimedia true = useful! … Continue reading
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