Re: [jboske] Re: poi'i, se/te/ve ka

[John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>]

Invent Yourself scripsit:

> 1. Because the car is blue 90% of the time, as it's constantly flickering
> colors?
> 
> 2. Because we've never seen the car but we're 90% certain it's blue?
> 
> 3. Because 90% of its surface is blue?
> 
> 4. Because its color is objectively 90% blue?
> 
> 5.Because 90% of survey respondents called it blue?

Any or all of these might be evidence for the truthishness of the claim.
When I said "certainty is neither here nor there," I was talking about
subjective certainty (= certitude). Objective uncertainty is a common
application of fuzzy logic: an OCR device may decide that a blob of ink
is (90%) an instance of "t", and is not (10%) an instance of "T".
Some predicates, like "tall", are inherently fuzzy.

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