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by jey
6781 days ago
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Sounds like an unreasonable assumption. Either way, it's not about "wrong" or "right", it's only about what can be derived from evidence. Without evidence you have no justification to assign a higher probability to "2 + 2 = 4" than "2 + 2 = 3". Caveat: It's true that some knowledge does have to be put into the prior distribution. Apparently you can't just bootstrap from a zero-information ("maximum entropy") prior. So it's possible that 2 + 2 = 4 is burned into our brains at birth. |
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Yup, there is plentiful evidence... not specifically the addition, but 2 and 4 are innately perceptible quantities.