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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 16 July 2008 08:20:20AM 0 points [-]

Re: Do you think it follows that elephants do not exist?

Elephants are not properties of physics any more than probabilities are.

The concept of an elephant is subjective - as are all concepts.

The atoms composing an elephant are real enough.

AFAICS, nobody ever claimed that probabilites "do not exist". The idea is that uncertainty is a psychological phenomenon, not that it is non-existent.

I hope that clarifies things.