[lojban-beginners] Re: "With /n/ confidence..."

["Jorge Llambías" <jjllambias@gmail.com>]

On 10/18/07, Marjorie Scherf <mls1@rice.edu> wrote:
>
> Is probability the same as certainty?

Usually not. I can be 100% certain that the probablility
of a coin coming up heads is 50%, for example.

Certainty is about knowledge, it is subjective. Probability
can be objective. Maybe nobody knows what the probability
of something happening is, but we can do some experiments
and find out. The probability of the event doesn't change as
we perform the experiments, but our certainty about whether
it will happen or not might change depending on how accurately
we are able to determine its probability.

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