Re: The purity of probability?
I mentioned this point in the Sklansky Philosophy Thread in which he asks if God could find 3 integers such that the sum of the cubes of two of them equals the cube of the third - something "Mathematics" has proved impossible. As Lexander and Gamble allude to above, Mathematics is not a homogenous science. There are different versions of mathematics with results in one version not accepted in others. Goodel's Theorum showed that Mathematics will never be "complete". There will always be additional axioms possible which allow consistent mathematics to be done with expanded results.
Probability is just a special field of Mathematics. Some say it's not even necessary, that it's just part of Real Analysis with it's own specialized vocabulary. Mathematics combined with Scientific Models can provide great tools for predicting experimental results. But as far as telling us what reality really IS it amounts to little more than a long poem with a specialized structure.
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