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Comment author: Psychosmurf 24 October 2011 11:30:04PM 1 point [-]

Why don't we start treating the sum of log_2 of the probability — conditional on every available piece of information — you assign to every true sentence, as the best measure of your epistemic success?

Wait. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here, but how are we going to decide what a true sentence is independently of all of our available information?

Comment author: potato 24 October 2011 11:52:48PM 0 points [-]

We won't be able to decide. But reality will.

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