On 8/7/06, J. Andrew Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Aug 5, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Yan King Yin wrote:
> > Suppose a person has a definition of pi in his mind, but we don't
> > know if it's the correct one. But if he succeeds in telling us
> > many digits of pi that are correct, then it is overwhelmingly
> > likely that he has got the correct definition, rather than 22/7.
>
>
> Or even more likely that his definition is a memorized sequence of
> digits.
>
> On Aug 5, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Yan King Yin wrote:
> > Suppose a person has a definition of pi in his mind, but we don't
> > know if it's the correct one. But if he succeeds in telling us
> > many digits of pi that are correct, then it is overwhelmingly
> > likely that he has got the correct definition, rather than 22/7.
>
>
> Or even more likely that his definition is a memorized sequence of
> digits.
C'mon, the brain is not so dumb. Are you the kind who's got through college by memorizing set answers from textbooks? ;)
We know the rules of logic. How could the brain be a set of hacks and yet be able to formulate the very rules of thought?
YKY
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