Alsadius comments on Jokes Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alsadius 28 July 2014 03:25:26PM 0 points [-]

Pretty much. I've actually gotten in a debate with a Randian on Facebook about what constitutes evidence. He doesn't seem to like Bayes' Theorem very much - he's busy talking about how we shouldn't refer to something as possible unless we have physical evidence of its possibility, because of epistemology.

Comment author: PrometheanFaun 01 August 2014 10:33:34PM *  1 point [-]

That's contrary to my experience of epistimology. It's just a word, define it however you want, but in both epistemic logic and pragmatics-stripped conventional usage, possibility is nothing more than a lack of disproof.