@semiotechnic Once you start saying X *more* likely than Y, you are quantifying. Seems unavoidable common sense.
@simplic10 @semiotechnic I distinguished earlier between ordinal and cardinal likelihood. Compare to utility theory. To say u(X) > u(Y)...
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@St_Rev@semiotechnic What I find odd is that you are willing to say "a > X > b" but also "X is a completely different thing from a & c." -
@simplic10@semiotechnic Or, 'the sky is a weasel' < 'the sky is indigo' < 'the sky is blue' < 'the sky is not a weasel'. -
@St_Rev@semiotechnic@Meaningness All of these sound like category errors to me. -
@simplic10@St_Rev@semiotechnic That's kind of the point, isn't it? Some uncertainty can usefully be represented numerically, some can't. -
@Meaningness@simplic10@semiotechnic ...nevertheless 'the sky is indigo' isn't entirely false. But 'the sky is blue' is *more true*. -
@St_Rev@Meaningness@semiotechnic These seem like fairly tractable definitional problems. Define blue as such&such wavelength distrib... -
@simplic10@Meaningness@semiotechnic Cyan = blue y/n -
@St_Rev@simplic10@Meaningness@semiotechnic ...whether a thing is true or false, we can use probabilities to reason about uncertainty - 4 more replies
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