somervta comments on Logic as Probability - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Manfred 08 February 2014 06:39AM

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Comment author: somervta 09 February 2014 04:01:11AM 2 points [-]

the law of the excluded middle (P(A|not-A)=0

Isn't this the LNC?

Comment author: philh 09 February 2014 11:23:28AM 3 points [-]

(I had to look it up: Law of Non-Contradiction.)

Comment author: tristanhaze 11 February 2014 04:26:13AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, this looks more like the Law of Non-Contradiction than the Law of Excluded Middle to me (which makes Manfred's jokey response seem doubly foolish).