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Saturday, January 14, 2006

Saturday January 14, 2006

Filed under: General — m759 @ 4:07 am
Diamond Jubilance
(See previous entry.)

“A (very brief!) lit search reveals very little on the intersection between probability theory and modal logic…. probability and modality are such big topics one would think there’d be something on their intersection, and I don’t think the way I’ve framed the problem is entirely idiosyncratic.”

— Brian Weatherson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University, May 11, 2004

Here, on the other hand, is a way of framing the problem that is entirely idiosyncratic:

On this date:

Probability:
In 1970, William Feller died.
Modality:
In 1978, Kurt Gödel died.
Intersection:
In 1898, the Rev. Deacon Charles Lutwidge Dodgson died.

Related material:
Log24, Jan. 14, 2003, and

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Modal Theology.

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