[ExI] atheists de-baptize unbelievers:

[Dave Sill]

2010/7/21 Giulio Prisco <giulio at gmail.com>

> However, I wish to note that the word "probably" used in this context
> ["There's probably no God."] reveals a poor understanding of the notion of
> probability in its rigorous Bayesian sense, and thus a poor understanding of
> much of modern science.


Why do you think that? Do you think "probably" was intended to mean "its
rigorous Bayesian sense" in that case? Seems likely to me that it was meant
in an informal sense, e.g., synonymous with "likely".

-Dave
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