[FRIAM] What's so bad about Scientism?
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gepropella at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 18:29:32 EDT 2018
So, to be clear, are you also making fun of reasoning like this? I ask because it's equal in idealism to the trolley problem.
On 07/11/2018 07:48 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> 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?
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