(August 14, 2012 at 10:58 pm)spockrates Wrote:(August 14, 2012 at 10:46 pm)padraic Wrote: When the impossible is removed, there may yet be several/many plausable/possible/ likely explanations. PLUS an assertion of impossibility is a truth claim.
Agreed. I guess the best course of action is to seriously consider as many possibilities as we can, no matter how improbable they first seem to be.
You can't live long enough to seriously contemplate any significant portion of the vast pool of vastly improbable possibilities. Wasting your time on them seems to cause you to lose perspective of just how trivial these possibilities really are next to much weightier probabilities. Life is about constrained optimization, to make the best of the limited time and opportunities you have. Optimization is not achieved by losing perspective and wasting opportunities of the probable for the infinitesimally possible.
