Vladimir_Nesov comments on Making Beliefs Pay Rent (in Anticipated Experiences) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 August 2010 11:11:25PM *  2 points [-]

I reached much clearer understanding once I've peeled away the structure of probability measure and got down to mathematically crisp events on sample spaces (classes of possible worlds). From this perspective, there are falsifiable concepts, but they usually don't constitute useful statements, so we work with the ones that can't be completely falsified, even though parts of them (some of the possible worlds included in them) do get falsified all the time, when you observe something.