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On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, John Cowan wrote: > 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. Well, since your beliefs have varying strengths, you are not an example of the fellow in the paradox who, when discussing any one of his beliefs in isolation, insists that it's true and that he's certain of it. > > 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? It's nonsensical, isn't it! > > > 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. You misjudge how much of the discussion I am able to reconstruct from memory. Lacking the text that's been deleted, I can't respond. -- // if (!terrorist) // ignore (); // else collect_data ();