[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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