From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 04:54:07 MDT
Lee Corbin
>A principle of Pan Critical Rationalism is that all knowledge is
>conjectural; when applied to the particular case of an airport security
>guard, this means that he or she can never be certain that person X is
>not a terrorist. All he or she can do is to lower the probability to a
>level corresponding to standards conforming to his or her training, and
>to the standards of the organization.
Popper vs. Bayesian statistics
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