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Invent Yourself scripsit:
> You're changing the situation as you go along. If you have a set of
> beliefs and you believe all of them (completely and equally), and then
> decide to include some uncertainty about them, then that uncertainty gets
> distributed to all the beliefs equally.
But I don't live in such a world: my beliefs have varying strengths. BY
your own logic, therefore, you are emitting unchallengeable fantasies.
> But it cannot vanish and fail to
> distribute across your actual beliefs. It's ridiculous to detach the
> uncertainty about beliefs from the uncertainty about beliefs, and give
> them different values.
Say what?
> Yes, but since we both understand the terms, there's no need to analyze
> them any further.
Well, perhaps you do, but I certainly don't.
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