Tuesday, 23 July 2024

probability v possibility

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“We have to differentiate between what is completely impossible and what is merely improbable,” writes the Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer Arne Næss. Nothing is completely impossible, he insists—just less and less probable. All eventualities while you are alive exist on a kind of “possibility meter” which goes from 0.1 to 99.9 per cent certainty.

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