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Comment author: Manfred 14 April 2012 07:52:18AM *  0 points [-]

Hm, good point. For example, for his statements "It will rain today" and "the roof will leak," the points in the Venn diagram you'd draw to show how these probabilities overlap don't correspond to anything real. On the other hand, it's really useful to picture this stuff, and you can imagine "chunking up" your space into regions corresponding to the different discrete outcomes (like a bar graph), and the exact same rules are followed, except now it seems a bit more meaningful.