“The rule that says that the egg won’t spontaneously reform and leap back into your hand is merely probabilistic.”
This example requires a level of education that doesn’t match my belief of the expected audience of this post.
The low importance in the distinction between mathematical certainty and realistic likelihood is valid, but involving quantum probability kills the post for me.
My point still holds. Most people, myself included, don’t have a belief that an egg will spontaneously reform according any laws of physics. To use it as an example of the difference between certainty and likelihood is ineffective.
If it were something too open to debate, it would take away from the point.
The point is as stated. There is a non-zero probability it will happen, so you shouldn’t use “certain”, but any reasonable person will act on the belief it isn’t going to happen.
If he used religion, which is also extremely unlikely to be correct, it would distract from the point.
“The rule that says that the egg won’t spontaneously reform and leap back into your hand is merely probabilistic.”
This example requires a level of education that doesn’t match my belief of the expected audience of this post.
The low importance in the distinction between mathematical certainty and realistic likelihood is valid, but involving quantum probability kills the post for me.
The example doesn’t require quantum physics. Just ordinary classical mechanics.
My point still holds. Most people, myself included, don’t have a belief that an egg will spontaneously reform according any laws of physics. To use it as an example of the difference between certainty and likelihood is ineffective.
If it were something too open to debate, it would take away from the point.
The point is as stated. There is a non-zero probability it will happen, so you shouldn’t use “certain”, but any reasonable person will act on the belief it isn’t going to happen.
If he used religion, which is also extremely unlikely to be correct, it would distract from the point.