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Probability in Your Profession: Philosopher

2015

A philosopher's truth scale: everything strictly between 0 and 1 is an 'open research question.'

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Philosopher (probability of statement's truth): "an intriguing hypothesis" (0) · "open research question" (everything between) · "tautological" (1)

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