Tetronian comments on Subjective Realities - Less Wrong

2 Post author: TheatreAddict 20 September 2011 07:10PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 20 September 2011 07:49:37PM 9 points [-]

And sufficient evidence is what we call "proof".

Sorry, my nitpick alarm went off at this. I think it makes more sense to say, "You don't need infinite certainty, just sufficiently strong evidence, and in any case there will never be enough evidence for you to be 100% sure of anything."