On 19 May 2015 at 07:49, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a difference in kind, not degree, between the impossible and the > highly improbable. > > > I disagree. That's a platonic attitude that we can discriminate between > impossible and highly improbable. It comes from a reliance on logical, in > which contradictions are "impossible"; but in fact contradictions are > properties of language and what we have thought "impossible" in the past > based on language, we've found to be the case in fact and had to adjust our > language to fit.
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