Re: ICR and its slurs
Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Thu, 05 Jun 1997 13:12:40 -0600At 06:34 PM 6/4/97 EDT, you wrote:
>JB <So then, what about the details? Well, they might differ, they might not.
>But if four out of four all agree on the major details--e.g., the light was
>red, the blue car was speeding, the white car was making a left turn--then,
>once again, you have a virtual CERTAINTY.>>
>
>RS <Or they might not agree on such details. One might say that the light was
>red and the blue car was speeding, the other might not have noticed the color
>of the light and said that the white car was speeding. Then you have nothing
>approaching certainty.>>
>
>So, in our hypothetical case, you have agreed that if FOUR correspond on
>major details, we have virtual certainty as to those facts;
No, I think it would take more than four.
>Are you ready for the next step?
No, you still haven't passed the first one.
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2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2.