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You'd be irrational if you followed the "paradox" and, even after performing that weighing and learning that some coins are fake, each time I hold up one of the coins you insist (without weighing it) that you are certain it's not one of the bad ones.
But I will insist, because for each coin my scale says it is good. If you say otherwise, it must be because your scale says otherwise. I might have to adjust my scale if you convince me that your scale is better for some reason (I won't believe that your scale has infinite precision either), but my scale is all I have to decide. So for each coin, I will say it is true. But for all the coins together, I will say one of them is fake.
If you have 10M beliefs, and one is wrong but you don't know which, then you are only (1 - 1/10M) certain of each of them.
I don't know how many are wrong. I could make estimates based on estimates on the precision of my scale, but it all gets more and more uncertain. What is your position? You don't believe anything, or do you believe that you have no mistaken beliefs? mu'o mi'e xorxes _________________________________________________________________STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail