RE: Certain Experiment Fact

Jeff Dee (jeff@illusionmachines.com)
Wed, 25 Sep 1996 10:47:20 -0500


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>From: Reilly Jones

>Jeff: <Certainty comes in all shades of grey from black to white.>

>Oh no, not this error again! This topic has been beaten to death on this list
>in the past, yet here it is again! We must have reached St. Tipler's Omega
>Point already.

Sorry, I'm kind of new here.

>The distinction between certainty and uncertainty is digital.
>You are either certain or you are uncertain. Look it up in the dictionary,
>certainty means indubitable, without doubt. Now unless you propose that we all
>make up the meaning of words on the fly, to have dictionaries du jour, in which
>case we would be nearly unintelligible to each other, let's stick to the
>clarified meaning of certainty. The instant you have a doubt about something,
>you are uncertain. There are different degrees of doubt, therefore, there are
>different degrees of uncertainty, but there is only one degree of certainty.

I have no argument with that.

-Jeff Dee
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