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On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, John Cowan wrote: > Invent Yourself scripsit: > > > 1. Because the car is blue 90% of the time, as it's constantly flickering > > colors? > > > > 2. Because we've never seen the car but we're 90% certain it's blue? > > > > 3. Because 90% of its surface is blue? > > > > 4. Because its color is objectively 90% blue? > > > > 5.Because 90% of survey respondents called it blue? > > Any or all of these might be evidence for the truthishness of the claim. > When I said "certainty is neither here nor there," I was talking about > subjective certainty (= certitude). Objective uncertainty is a common > application of fuzzy logic: an OCR device may decide that a blob of ink > is (90%) an instance of "t", and is not (10%) an instance of "T". > Some predicates, like "tall", are inherently fuzzy. It seems to me that this allows my original usage: that "jei by. clani" is related to B's height. -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();