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> What's an improbable claim? That all depends on the prevailing level
> of credulity among the given populace. After all, some people buy
> almost anything -- from penis-enhancing pills, alien abduction
> stories, Elvis sightings, 9/11 conspiracy theories, to God. :->
oh, come on, yoshie. that's a cop-out in the context of this conversation.
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> It worked because too many Americans were too credulous
> to say, "Hey, that's a very improbable claim -- the burden is on
> _you_ to prove that they still exist in Iraq."
this actually contradicts your point above that im/probability is relative to credulity, since here you are saying that credulity is relative to probability: people can be considered credulous when they don't recognize something as "very improbable". this presumes we can say what is im/probable independent of credulity.
just for the record. :)
j
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