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Thinking possibilistically in a probabilistic world
Author(s) -
Clarke Lee
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2007.00270.x
Subject(s) - clarity , probabilistic logic , epistemology , psychology , operations research , philosophy , engineering , chemistry , biochemistry
We cannot live on the knife edge of disaster all the time. We cannot even think about disastrous extremes with any clarity, says Lee Clarke . For 300 years we have equated thinking probabilistically with thinking rationally, but is that enough for thinking about terrorism, air crashes—or even God?