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echo: philos
to: NICK DOUGLAS
from: WILLIAM ELLIOT
date: 1998-03-08 01:33:00
subject: `Existence Exists`

 >>> Nick Douglas on "Existence Exists" 
 ND> So, what is existence anyway? Define some of these words and I can
 ND> find faults in the definitions: exist life God probability
 ND> Once you're done, send it either here or to my e-mail address at
 ND> spriterules@juno.com. 
You have a dictionary?  Let's critique those definitions.  The biggest 
problem with exist and life is that actually they denote not things but on 
going events.  In an existential sense, they are not nouns but actually 
verbs.  A god is a mythical creature.  Capitalized, 'God' is the proper name 
of a proclaimed unique, Christian god.
The probability of an event E within a space S of occurrences is the ratio of 
the number of occurrences in the event E to the number of occurrences in the 
space S.
For example if S is rolls of a single perfect six sided die and E is the 
event of rolling an odd number, the probability E, of rolling an odd number, 
is 3/6 = 1/2.  The probability of the event E12, rolling a 1 or a 2, is 2/6 = 
1/3.
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