>>> 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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