Kawoomba comments on Infinite Certainty - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kawoomba 28 June 2013 09:02:16PM 0 points [-]

If any agent within a system were able to assign a 1 or 0 probability to any belief about that system being true, that would mean that the map-territory divide would have been broken.

However, since that agent can never rule out being mistaken about its own ontology, its reasoning mechanism, following an invisible (if vanishingly unlikely) internal failure, it can never gain final certainty about any feature of territory, although it can get arbitrarily close.