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RE: popular opinion as evidence
April 11, 2014 at 11:41 pm (This post was last modified: April 11, 2014 at 11:42 pm by MindForgedManacle.)
(April 11, 2014 at 11:38 pm)tor Wrote: I tell a town of stupid people I'm a wizard. People believe me. Does that make me more likely to be a wizard? No.

More likely than it would have been if you hadn't said so. But of course as I said earlier, other evidence alters the probability of a claims likelihood, e.g in this case, we have good reasons to be very skeptical that magic or wizards exist.
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popular opinion as evidence - by Coffee Jesus - April 11, 2014 at 6:37 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by Coffee Jesus - April 11, 2014 at 7:49 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 11, 2014 at 8:04 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by Coffee Jesus - April 11, 2014 at 8:20 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 11, 2014 at 9:00 pm
popular opinion as evidence - by Rampant.A.I. - April 11, 2014 at 8:55 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by Coffee Jesus - April 11, 2014 at 10:09 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by Jiggerj - April 12, 2014 at 1:03 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by Brian37 - April 11, 2014 at 9:10 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 11, 2014 at 10:13 pm
popular opinion as evidence - by Rampant.A.I. - April 11, 2014 at 10:52 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by Coffee Jesus - April 11, 2014 at 11:34 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by MindForgedManacle - April 11, 2014 at 11:08 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 11, 2014 at 11:11 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by MindForgedManacle - April 11, 2014 at 11:14 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 11, 2014 at 11:28 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by MindForgedManacle - April 11, 2014 at 11:35 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 11, 2014 at 11:38 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by MindForgedManacle - April 11, 2014 at 11:38 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 11, 2014 at 11:39 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by MindForgedManacle - April 11, 2014 at 11:41 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 11, 2014 at 11:42 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by Coffee Jesus - April 11, 2014 at 11:44 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by MindForgedManacle - April 11, 2014 at 11:46 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 11, 2014 at 11:48 pm
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by Cato - April 12, 2014 at 8:40 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by MindForgedManacle - April 14, 2014 at 12:40 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 14, 2014 at 12:44 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by MindForgedManacle - April 14, 2014 at 12:49 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 14, 2014 at 12:51 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by MindForgedManacle - April 14, 2014 at 1:03 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 14, 2014 at 1:06 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by MindForgedManacle - April 14, 2014 at 1:14 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 14, 2014 at 1:16 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by MindForgedManacle - April 14, 2014 at 1:45 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by tor - April 14, 2014 at 2:00 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by archangle - April 14, 2014 at 8:07 am
RE: popular opinion as evidence - by Coffee Jesus - April 14, 2014 at 9:12 am

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