Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Forecasting ones own beliefs

Statistics tell you nothing about the future unless you make the assumption of the permanence of statistical form.



Mathematics can tell you the consequences of your beliefs - there is no valid inference from mere possibility to matter of fact or from mere mathematics to concrete nature




Alfred North Whitehead: Adventures of Ideas
Even if we are right about the processes which brought us to our current state, be that climate or anything else.
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