PHL145H5 Lecture 1: Lecture 1
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To move from one statement to other statements. From one statement to a new statement that you may not have believed before, but now you do. It may be useful to believe some things even though it may not be true. The statement this morning the sun rose is useful to believe but it"s false. The truth is that the earth orbits around the sun, however, it"s still useful to think that the sun rises/sets because we can"t feel the earth moving. We tend to reason according to rules of thumb. Steve is very shy and withdrawn, invariably helpful but with little interest in people or in the world of reality. Our gut tells us that steve is a librarian. Statistically he is a farmer because there are 20 times more farmers than librarians. Our gut tells us that k" is more likely to appear as the first letter. Statistically k" is more likely to appear as the third letter.
