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by HelloNurse
1057 days ago
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That highly probable events actually happen can be a reasonable practical assumption, but definitely not a logical certainty.
It is the hard, probabilistic version of the sorites paradox: with few atoms and little time, any chemical process is unlikely; with a whole planet and a few billion years, chemical processes are very likely; at some intermediate sample size you can feel justified to assume that what you are interested in happens, but it is only a feeling, not a real qualitative threshold. |
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