@semiotechnic Once you start saying X *more* likely than Y, you are quantifying. Seems unavoidable common sense.
@simplic10 @semiotechnic Or, 'the sky is a weasel' < 'the sky is indigo' < 'the sky is blue' < 'the sky is not a weasel'.
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@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 -
@tipsfromkatee@simplic10@Meaningness@semiotechnic But if you can do probability theory, you already know a ton about a system. -
@St_Rev@simplic10@Meaningness@semiotechnic true if you mean "do probability theory explicitly", not "hold it up as a normative standard" - 2 more replies
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