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| That has nothing to do with the fact that you confuse semantic vagueness for pr… |
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| Imagine someone is caught stealing, and in their defense they explain that the … |
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| Things with a zero probability can happen by the way. If you have the set of all… |
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| Is it what I would do? What if it’s what I would do sometimes and not other tim… |
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| You are stating that as if it were true, so why not reword it to make it clear … |
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| Yet the author of that tried to explain their reasoning anyway. You could sto… |
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| There are things we don’t know that we don’t know, so we can’t say for sure tha… |
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| If you are talking about limited information, like not knowing what camera was … |
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| There’s a quote I think is relevant to this: Reason is itself a matter of faith… |
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| Taiwan doesn’t change depending on what definition of a country you use. Changi… |
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| That's still just a matter of semantics. You keep confusing semantics with pro… |
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| Right but there are different types of cameras with different sensors and the s… |
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| You can settle this by defining terms as well. Do you mean "is a member … |
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| The question of the dress was about how the brain perceives shadows and color. … |
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| Like Taiwan for example. Everybody has strong opinions about that, but if you pu… |
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| But this is actually a real problem: if you ask different sources how many count… |
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| We don’t exactly agree, we just agree most of the time. |
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| For the example we are using, whether France is in Europe, it is very clear. E… |
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| What’s the difference between a door and a slab of wood? It depends if the slab … |
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| Wrong about what? We both agree on whether France is in Europe. Whether we ag… |
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| And in the real world, objects aren’t neatly divided into distinct categories. |
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| It's not a circular problem because people do not learn language by starting wi… |
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| If I was wrong, would we even be having this debate in the first place? |
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| What the definition means depends on what the words in the definition mean, whi… |
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| No, it's simple enough to clarify terms beforehand. Discussions where people a… |
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| Which definition someone used is probabilistic. Which answer is correct, base… |
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| All questions are different amounts of vague. |
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| It is a binary question. You've confused vague questions with degrees of truth… |
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| Which is what I’m saying, you can’t actually do that, you always have to guess … |
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| France isn’t in Europe or not in Europe based on how the terms are defined, bec… |
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| If you want to have a clear and productive conversation you need to make sure … |
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| My point is that binary questions often aren’t really binary. Is France in Euro… |
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| You said there are degrees of truth on the matter, and there are not. Truth is… |
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| We don’t all come up with a rigid definition for where France is, we just have a… |
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| The question we were discussing was whether it was binary. Defining all binar… |
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| I’m not confusing them. I never said France has a probability of being in North… |
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| You are confusing probability with semantics, and you clearly still don't under… |
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| Binary logic is just probabilistic logic whether the only probabilities are 100… |
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| The reason why I’m switching between degrees of truth and probability is because… |
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| We've all taken both kids of math. 5x5=25 and that's simply true 100%. If th… |
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| Say in one case a is 60% true and b is 50% true. Say in another case a is 60% l… |
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| Yes, and no one denied the distinction. What actually happened is that I said … |
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| Functionally, what would be the mathematical difference between a degree of tru… |
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| In mathematics usually there’s a discrete way of looking at things and a continu… |
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| No, I'm not resistant to probabilistic thinking and there are many questions th… |
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| You’re only resistant to this because it’s not the way you think about things. … |
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| And I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, I’m just saying, you gotta kinda go with … |
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| It really doesn't, because once you determine whether "in" means &quo… |
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| That doesn't make it probabilistic, because probabilistic question deal with l… |
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