DanielLC comments on Raven paradox settled to my satisfaction - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanielLC 06 August 2014 06:27:24PM 2 points [-]

Ravens is a tighter cluster in thing-space than non-ravens, so we'd expect a tighter correlation of color. Thus, it takes a lot more non-black non-ravens to convince me that all non-blacks are non-ravens than it does ravens to convince me that all ravens are black.