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on studies of formal logic as an embodied, situated, social, cultural, materially-mediated activity.
This view contrasts with:
1 formal logics as Platonic mathematical objects
2 formal logic as an innate mental capacity
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My practical application of this is poker, where I can be wrong once in a while but being correct just slightly more often than average can be very profitable. So I care less about whether *all* ravens are black, and more about guessing correctly if the next one will be.
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Probability theory works for gambling because gambling games were engineered to fit the rules of probability theory, and vice versa. It doesn’t work for almost anything else.
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