It's not a magic incantation. Bayes formula requires that you take the first step, with your best guess. Then you have to do the work of finding new evidence to support or deny your intuitive answer. It's pragmatic, not magic. It's subjective, not science.Thank you for the formula but how does that apply to my problems? — Truth Seeker
↪Manuel Or we can accept skepticism and carry on from there without stressing about certainty, knowing that we will die is as likely or less than that we were born. — Lionino
Not to say if Earth is Earth. Derrida’s concept of iterability involves the idea that every repetition is an alteration, every recurrence is a difference — Lionino
I cry about the fact that there is so much suffering, inequality, injustice, and death in the world. If I could, I would make all living things forever happy - including the dead ones and the never-born ones. I wish I could make all living things all-loving, all-knowing and all-powerful then there would be no suffering, inequality, injustice and death. — Truth Seeker
Good for you. If something is known, then one can conclude that it is true.To say you know something implies a commitment to something being true, and for me that implies certainty — Lionino
In Chess, it is true that the bishop stays on it's own colour.One can hardly discern whether there is something "true" about the game they just made up to communicate or whether it is a useful fiction. — Lionino
Are you trying to apply mathematical operations to English? Because
* "It is set in stone that there is nothing set in stone" and
* "It is not set in stone that there is something set in stone"
can mean completely different things, even though both are made of a negative with a positive. — Lionino
On the contrary, it is the lack of compassion and caring that creates the problems in life. If everyone cared about everyone then the world would be a much happier place. Murder, torture, rape, robbery, theft, fraud, slavery, exploitation, etc. would vanish. The world has enough to meet everyone's needs. It does not have enough to meet anyone's greed. If only everyone would commit to saving and improving all lives. I am not paralysed. I have saved and improved some lives already and plan to save and improve even more lives. — Truth Seeker
I eventually realised that compassion and caring doesn't solve any problems. — AmadeusD
Isn't it compassion and caring that results in people taking action to help others? — Beverley
What project? — Truth Seeker
If you are saying that compassion and caring doesn't solve any problems for those being shown compassion and caring, that doesn't seem to make sense to me. — Beverley
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