(February 9, 2014 at 6:40 am)Rayaan Wrote: [quote='max-greece' pid='600643' dateline='1391938035']
I think that's a fallacious understanding of probability, because in the case of the event that has already taken place (e.g. you won the lottery), you are not taking into account all the other possibilities of what could have happened (which probability requires you to do) but instead you have assigned a probability value simply based on your knowledge of the past event and not the probability itself.
Same thing that I said above.
Again, your knowledge that your last hand was a straight flush is just a fact (or something you just know) and it's not probability per se. Facts =/= Probability.
That's sort of the point Max and I are making. Probability refers to the probability OF something and that refers to the future. Thus it can't be applied to something which HAS happened (like a fine tuned universe) because as you say that is now a fact.
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