Re: What is the distinction between rolling dice and flying in a plane
Except that each roll of the die is mutually exclusive of the previous and there are only six possibilities. Therefore, one can determine within P(A) < .0001 accuracy (actually p = 1) what the outcomes will be and with absolute absence of statistics. Statisics will agree as Central Limit Theorom and the Law of Large Numbers with the probabilities.
However, with airplanes/cars/napalm/atom bombs/hand grenades etc. This is not so. Each event is not necessarilly mutually exclusive and the possibilities are infinite, therefore dependent on some prior[i] (as opposed to a priori) datum.
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