Timeline for Does probability require a beginning? Can it apply to eternal things like god?
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| Jun 2, 2023 at 16:42 | answer | added | niels nielsen | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jun 2, 2023 at 8:33 | answer | added | Raj | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 15:34 | answer | added | user64314 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 12:31 | answer | added | Ludwig V | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Jun 1, 2023 at 8:35 | answer | added | Bumble | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 8:05 | comment | added | Mauro ALLEGRANZA | See Pascal's wager. | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 2:22 | comment | added | user64314 | But what about eternal posited beings such as god? What is their probability? God either exists or not. Two states. With no further information, it's like a coin: 50/50. | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 0:28 | comment | added | armand | the probability for the given outcome of a dice roll to be 1/6 is just an axiom. It is to say, everybody agrees that it's reasonnable to posit that it is actually the case. In fact it might not be, but there is no way to verify that (one could toss a given dice a million times and see the statisitical outcome tends to 1/6, but that wouldn't be a demonstration, just further establish the axiom as reasonable). Also there is no such thing as an eternal atom. | |
| Jun 1, 2023 at 0:01 | comment | added | Kristian Berry | Even given the variety of kinds/theories of probability, we can make some headway when it comes to relatively specific definitions of things like deities. Perfect/maximal being theology, for example, does not countenance a deity as more probable except in the vacuous sense that such a deity, if it exists, necessarily exists. And Kant inveighed against the kind of "averaged probabilities" arguments for metaphysical claims: either an a priori argument fully confirms a metaphysical thesis, or it does not. But so weaker/less metaphysical deities might figure in other calculations. | |
| May 31, 2023 at 23:48 | history | asked | user62907 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |