[FRIAM] What's so bad about Scientism?

[Nick Thompson]

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Hmm!

 

Jones is in a gunfight

Jones Knows that his opponent has only a six shooter

Jones knows that his opponent has just fired six shots

Jones’s opponent aims his gun at Jones

Jones reasons that his opponent’s gun is empty

Yet he is afraid of being shot.

Does Jones believe that the gun is empty?  

 

By the way, given the facts stipulated, you, as a mathematician, would say that the probability that the gun is empty is 1.0, right?  

 

 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

 <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2018, 6:50 PM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net <mailto:nickthompson at earthlink.net> > wrote:

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I think it was Quine who said, if it's the kind of thing you have to reason about it's not a value. 

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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

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Aha!  That's good to know.  Like deeply parsing Liz Phair lyrics, you *cannot* rely on me to infer what you imply.  I'm just not smart enough.

On 07/11/2018 12:10 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> I was making FUN of the trolley game.  I don't want to play it any more than you do!

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