HI,
> If all of the balls had been numbered unambiguously from 1 through > 1,000,010, the statistical effect produced by Bostrom's ambiguous ball > 7 would vanish. Agreed. Also consider another version: do not name the balls in the first urn 1 to 10, but with uniform random numbers of the interval [1,1000000]. Then, if you would draw the ball "517012" you would not know from which urn it was either. It is definitely a "labeling" artefact. Regards, Günther -- Günther Greindl Department of Philosophy of Science University of Vienna [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.univie.ac.at/Wissenschaftstheorie/ Blog: http://dao.complexitystudies.org/ Site: http://www.complexitystudies.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
