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244 | Katie Elliott on Metaphysics, Chance, and Explanation
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Explanatory Asymmetry Between Explanation and Prediction
I'm a complete subjectivist about probability. I think the probability is always about what we know. And so if you tell me someone out there could in principle have a complete list of everything that happens in the future and if I could get a whole of that, that would count to me as a deterministic law. Aha. Not a very useful one, but if that were somehow made accessible to me, I mean in practice it isn't. So that's fine.
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