View Poll Results: Mode of Inference (select all that apply)

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  • Ætiological - isolates mechanisms for direct causation while exploring a system.

    21 52.50%
  • Bayesian - tends to include extraneous a priori considerations to improve calculations.

    11 27.50%
  • Fatalist - believes that future/past can be deduced from knowledge of present circumstances.

    13 32.50%
  • Frequentist - refuses to respect anything but empirical evidence and its empirical probability.

    12 30.00%
  • Inconclusive - has no specific preference in a rational basis, or is simply inconsistent.

    6 15.00%
  • Nomothetic - reasons using a comprehensive system of diagnostic references and the intuition.

    24 60.00%
  • Pyrrhonian - will doubt anything in any context, even skepticism itself.

    11 27.50%
  • Solipsist - identifies all convictions with the premise that only the mind really exists.

    4 10.00%
  • Stochastic - likes to interpret according to high recurrence and correlativity.

    23 57.50%
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Thread: Mode of Inference - how do you interpret raw data?

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    Question Mode of Inference - how do you interpret raw data?

    Specifically, how do you come to believe what you do?



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    Testicular - my head is my penis
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    Quote Originally Posted by FDG View Post
    Testicular - my head is my penis
    Haha that was really funny, wait.....................penis! rofl!

    Last edited by Nexus; 06-11-2008 at 07:13 PM.

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    I don't like the question.

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    Quote Originally Posted by strrrng View Post
    I don't like the question.
    The question wasn't 'do you like the question?'

    What question do you like?

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    i dont really like it either, it sounds like everyone will use raw data to come to decisions. Raw data sounds like statistics. that's the impression i get.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Huitzilopochtli View Post
    Fatalist - believes that future/past can be deduced from knowledge of present circumstances.
    That's determinism - fatalism is the belief that certain events in the future will happen regardless of what occurs in the present.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stormy View Post
    That's determinism - fatalism is the belief that certain events in the future will happen regardless of what occurs in the present.
    Yes, but for reasons that are certain and not probabilistic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Huitzilopochtli View Post
    Yes, but for reasons that are certain and not probabilistic.
    In any case, fatalism makes no comment on whether the future can be deduced from the present - it merely states that some things will happen whatever, regardless of whether we know what those things are or not.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stormy View Post
    In any case, fatalism makes no comment on whether the future can be deduced from the present - it merely states that some things will happen whatever, regardless of whether we know what those things are or not.
    Thus it is the natural conclusion of determinism. If it could not be deduced from the present it would not be fated to happen then as inferred now; otherwise it would occur only at that time with no precursor indication, possibly even by a sudden probabilistic shift.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Huitzilopochtli View Post
    If it could not be deduced from the present it would not be fated to happen then as inferred now...
    Depends on the nature of fate - if a supernatural, a thing certainly could be fated without being deducible from the present.
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    Bump. Really awesome thread

    Tentatively Bayesian-Pyrrhonian and contextually etiological when dealing with psychological and sociological domains, but I'd be a shitty pyrrhonian if I conclusively voted.


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    Nomoethic, Stochastic, sometimes Fatalist (seldom - only when chaos reigns)

    Does this make me LIE or LII/LSI?

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