[MD] Choosing Chance
craigerb at comcast.net
craigerb at comcast.net
Tue Jan 26 22:09:02 PST 2010
[Steve]
> when we say that coin flips are random...w e are just saying that we cannot
> predict what the outcome will be... Of course, if we knew enough about the particular
> coin flip, we actually could predict the outcome.
You say "of course", but that is true only when Determinism holds (i.e., where there can
only be a unique outcome). If effects are merely probablistic,
then only probablistic predictions can be made no matter how much info we have.
Craig
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