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Re: [jboske] Lojban is fxxxed


la xod cusku di'e

I believe that one of the 10 coins in my pocket is painted green. If I
yank out a coin, I MUST admit there is a 1/10 chance of it being green.
There is no choice.


I have 10,000,000 coins. I have a scale I use to tell whether a
coin is fake or not. For each coin, I can use the scale to tell
that it is not fake: each coin weighs 1g. I have a bigger scale
I can use to weigh them all together. In this scale, they weigh
9,999,995 g. I conclude that some coins must be fake, but I have
no (easy) way of knowing which ones.

Would you say that I'm irrational because the scale I use does
not have infinite precision? Or should I just say that I have
no certain beliefs, given that I know that the scale I use
has finite precision?

mu'o mi'e xorxes


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