You can read “rule out” as “no longer take seriously”. The probability of a hypothesis doesn’t have to go down all the way to 0 before I stop taking it seriously. I’ve edited the original description to reflect this.
Thanks for this clarification. I was going for “lean towards non-skeptical realism” but would say “accept non-skeptical realism” under your new formulation. I don’t rule out a simulation hypothesis, for instance, but can’t say I give it serious probability weighting. (Bostrom considers it one of three disjuncts, and I can give reasons to assign the other disjuncts much higher probability.)
You can read “rule out” as “no longer take seriously”. The probability of a hypothesis doesn’t have to go down all the way to 0 before I stop taking it seriously. I’ve edited the original description to reflect this.
Thanks for this clarification. I was going for “lean towards non-skeptical realism” but would say “accept non-skeptical realism” under your new formulation. I don’t rule out a simulation hypothesis, for instance, but can’t say I give it serious probability weighting. (Bostrom considers it one of three disjuncts, and I can give reasons to assign the other disjuncts much higher probability.)