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I believe that one of the 10 coins in my pocket is painted green. If I yank out a coin, I MUST admit there is a 1/10 chance of it being green. There is no choice.
I have 10,000,000 coins. I have a scale I use to tell whether a coin is fake or not. For each coin, I can use the scale to tell that it is not fake: each coin weighs 1g. I have a bigger scale I can use to weigh them all together. In this scale, they weigh 9,999,995 g. I conclude that some coins must be fake, but I have no (easy) way of knowing which ones. Would you say that I'm irrational because the scale I use does not have infinite precision? Or should I just say that I have no certain beliefs, given that I know that the scale I use has finite precision? mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________Help STOP SPAM: Try the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail