Imagine that you have a... «Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction»
kitties_with_days13 сентября 2022Imagine that you have a ticket in a fair one-in-a-thousand lottery for a huge cash prize. The draw has just been held, but the winner has not yet been announced. As you wait for the announcement, do you know that your ticket has not won? Odds are 99.9 per cent that it has lost, but most people say that despite the slim odds of winning, they don’t know that they have lost until the announcement is made. But if a 99.9 per cent chance isn’t high enough for knowledge, how high do our chances need to be?
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