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Carinthium comments on Skepticism about Probability - Less Wrong Discussion

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

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Comment author: Carinthium 29 January 2014 02:24:31AM 0 points [-]

Implicit assumptions- not just the senses, but the reliability of memory and the reliability of rules of induction.

I already mentioned that I believe in the world, not because I think it rational, but as an act of religious-style faith. I think it irrational to believe the world exists because it makes so many assumptions that can't be defended in a rational argument.