ME3 comments on Science Isn't Strict Enough - Less Wrong

13 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 May 2008 06:51AM

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Comment author: ME3 16 May 2008 08:33:28PM 1 point [-]

P(A&B)<=P(A), P(A|B)>=P(A)

Isn't this just ordinary logic? It doesn't really require all of probability theory. I believe that logic is a fairly uncontroversial element of scientific thought, though of course occasionally misapplied.