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Branden Fitelson on the Logic and Use of Probability

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This podcast episode was originally posted on Preposterous Universe by Sean Carrol.

Every time you see an apple spontaneously break away from a tree, it falls downward. You therefore claim that there is a law of physics: apples fall downward from trees. But how can you really know? After all, tomorrow you might see an apple that falls upward. How is science possible at all? Philosophers, as you might expect, have thought hard about this. Branden Fitelson explains how a better understanding of probability can help us decide when new evidence is actually confirming our beliefs.

Listen on Preposterous Universe.

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