(April 8, 2014 at 11:34 pm)Heywood Wrote: If you randomly draw a marble from that bin that contains an infinite amount of marbles....is it possible you will draw the ruby red one? Yes it is because the ruby red marble exists and therefore it is possible you can draw it. However the probability you will draw the ruby red marble is not a positive number.
I can't believe I need to point this out to you, and don't take my refutation of this as a sign that I take your bare assertion remotely seriously, but if a probability has a negative number, then it's not possible. So you're essentially saying that yes, drawing the red marble is possible because it is in the set of possible choices, but that it's impossible.
Also? I reject the notion that there is only one red marble in your bin, because most likely there isn't, if we're drawing the correct analogy. Additionally, the longer the length of time you have to continue drawing marbles, the higher the probability of drawing a red one becomes.
That's how probability actually works.
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