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Re: [RC] On the other hand......... - Truman Prevatt

Bruce Weary wrote:
certainly some generalities out there, I think it is impossible to
formulate rules about horses (chestnuts are this, greys are that, white
feet are this, black feet are that, QH's are calm, Arab's are flighty,
etc.,.) when there are so many exceptions to almost any rule anyone
could come up with.

No one can tell you with certainty where a single electron will be in a potential well, or a tunnel diode, etc. However, with clear certainty one can say how "many" electrons will act in a potential well, tunnel diode, etc. If we couldn't you would not be sitting in front of your computer, the Internet would not exist, etc. The rules of "probability" govern just about everything seen in life - from the sub atomic world upward.


That doesn't mean we can say that your individual gray horse is going or not going to get a melanoma. However, such statements about the ensemble of gray horses and melanomas are valid. Such statements as "Gray horses are more prone to melanomas" or "Gray horses have a shorter life span than non-Gray horses" are statements about the ensemble of gray horses.

Truman


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"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." H. L. Mencken


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