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Posted by Aurino Souza on March 28, 2002 21:19:04 UTC

Hi Dick

I have expressed many times my position that everyone is free to define things as they please, so I really see no point in complaining about your definition of reality. What one says based on a definition is what matters, not the definition itself.

However, I'm still curious as to what that has to do with preparing oneself to solve a problem. Are you saying you are justified in assuming that every problem can be expressed in a rational way? I suppose not, I suppose you actually mean that only those problems you have to think about can be expressed in a rational way. Am I correct? There's still a whole lot of problems out there which cannot be solved rationally, and for which we rely on intuition or commonsense.

Still, your paper seems to deal with a very specific rational problem, not a generic one. The problem, in my understanding, concerns the probability of observing a particular pattern given a finite sample. I would hardly call that a generic problem, but perhaps I'm going too far ahead. I'll wait and see what others have to say.

Have fun,

Aurino

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