You extracted the “rule out” phrase from the sentence:
I just wanted show that intelligence and rational conduct do not rule out the possibility of being wrong about some belief.
From within the common phrase ‘do not rule out the possibility’ no less!
None of this affects my point that ruling out the possibility is the wrong, (in fact impossible), standard.
You then make a reference to ‘0 and 1s not probabilities’ with exaggerated incredulity.
Not exaggerated. XiXiDu’s post did seem to be saying: here are these examples of experts being wrong so it is possible that an expert is wrong in this case, without
saying anything useful about how probable it is for this particular expert to be wrong on this particular issue.
To put it mildly this struck me as logically rude and in general poor form.
You have made an argument accusing me of logical rudeness that, quite frankly, does not stand up to scrutiny.
None of this affects my point that ruling out the possibility is the wrong, (in fact impossible), standard.
Not exaggerated. XiXiDu’s post did seem to be saying: here are these examples of experts being wrong so it is possible that an expert is wrong in this case, without saying anything useful about how probable it is for this particular expert to be wrong on this particular issue.
You have made an argument accusing me of logical rudeness that, quite frankly, does not stand up to scrutiny.
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