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Old 08-19-2005, 02:50 PM
adamstewart adamstewart is offline
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Default Re: Either Life Exists Elsewhere or The Universe is finite.

You are misconstruing my arguement.

Your example with the two black aces is not a proper analogy. You are comparing apples to oranges. That is, drawing to black aces from 52 card deck is not the same as drawing two black aces from a 50 card deck that does not contain the black aces. These are two totally different trials. One has a greater than zero probability. The other has a zero probability.


Also, if I am correctly understanding your proposed scenario of 'picking a real number between 0 and 1,' then I fail to see how this is the same as the argument propsed in my original post.


Adam
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