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Comment author: potato 08 April 2012 07:37:58PM *  0 points [-]

argue for what things? I have no clue what the POE or Gtheorem have to do with komologrov provably assigning zero probability to contradictions.

What is the difference between exclusive outcomes and contradictions? How are they not the same mathematical object? If two exclusive outcomes end up resulting, you can also explode the universe.

For A to be exclusive with B, means that if A happened B did not. So: If A and B, then ~B and B, then B or P, then ~B, so P. The POE is not something unique to contradictions which exclusive outcomes lack.

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