[FRIAM] What's so bad about Scientism?

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It wouldn't surprise me in the least if Nick were even more doubting than I am, similar to how ex-smokers become the most vehement anti-smoking zealots or how militant atheists seem to have been reared steeped in some religious tradition.  Most of us "live inside our own heads".  The tendency for us to prefer *ideas* over realities has become obvious in recent years (e.g. filter bubbles).  I suppose that's the trouble with interacting mostly via text/words/concepts/ideas, with very little or no meat-space-mediated interaction.  And truly disjoint categories can only exist in the world of ideas.  Out in meat space, there is no this or that, only a colloidal stew.


On 07/09/2018 11:53 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> p.s.  I also said that the probability of heads for a fair coin is 0.5.  Of course, that's a definition but since he was denying the reality of probability I think that cut some ice.
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> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018, 12:50 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com <mailto:wimberly3 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Actually Nick is competitive with you for skepticism.  We were discussing probabilities and he said you can't know the probability of an event based on past observations.  He basically said just because the probability of an event has always been P, how do you know it still is?  Is that a fair characterization of what you said, Nick?


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