[ExI] Belief in maths (was mind body dualism).

[John Clark]

On Jul 7, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Mike Dougherty wrote:

> Of course a fair coin is 50/50.  How did we learn this?

From it's history. If I knew nothing about the coin except that it just produced 99 heads in a row I would say the probability it is a fair coin is greater than zero but very very small. I certainly wouldn't trust it for anything important.

 John K Clark

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