(May 4, 2025 at 8:06 pm)Belacqua Wrote: To go a little further down the scale, suppose one of my crazy neighbors told me that there's a colony of wild hippopotami in the neighborhood. I would reject this claim as impossible, because I know that certain conditions would be required to support such a colony, and those conditions don't exist. So the boar example is more about true or false, the hippo example is more about possible or impossible.
Hmm what do you mean by conditions in this scenario? I would say there's a difference in possibility between the herd being in the neighborhood, and being in your closet, for example. It wouldn't be possible in the closet because of the inconcistency between the size of your closet and the size of the herd.
So I would argue that there is a possibility of the herd being in the neighborhood, even though the probability is zero.
