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Wes_W comments on Skepticism about Probability - Less Wrong Discussion

-8 Post author: Carinthium 27 January 2014 09:49AM

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Comment author: Wes_W 28 January 2014 07:05:32AM 0 points [-]

"Self-evident assumptions" sounds suspiciously like "axioms", yet axioms are apparently not what you seek. What exactly are you hoping to find? What would an acceptable "self-evident assumption" be?

Comment author: Carinthium 28 January 2014 09:40:59AM 0 points [-]

Assumptions that can be demonstrated to be true in any possible universe.