Alicorn comments on Decision theory: Why Pearl helps reduce “could” and “would”, but still leaves us with at least three alternatives - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 06 September 2009 04:59:23PM 10 points [-]

That's the difference between epistemic and metaphysical possibility. Something can be epistemically possible without being metaphysically possible if one doesn't know if it's metaphysically possible or not.

Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 06 September 2009 06:25:36PM *  1 point [-]

Thanks, that's exactly what I was trying to say.