From: Randall Randall (wolfkin@freedomspace.net)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 21:23:21 MDT
gts wrote:
> I often use language that would suggest directly or indirectly that I am
> certain of a given fact (e.g., given the evidence of your birth records,
> I am "certain" that you are 23 years of age) but this is really only a
> matter of the convenience of language. If I were to make the painstaking
> effort of writing empirically then I would write something similar to
> this: "Given the empirical of evidence of your birth certificate, the
> hypothesis that you are not 23 must be rejected in favor of the
> hypothesis that you are 23."
It is in exactly this sense and with this reason that many people
use the term 'immortal' to refer to those who have very small
probabilities of dying.
Glad to see you understand. :)
-- Randall Randall <randall@randallsquared.com> "[The] poetic justice of cause and effect compels respect, compassion." -- Faithless, God is a DJ.
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