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Q&A: Reasonable and Probable

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Reasonable and Probable

Question

What is the difference between “reasonable” and “probable”? Between plausibilities and probabilities? Or in other words, does “this is reasonable” mean “there is a higher probability of this than of something else”?

Answer

I use these terms in somewhat different senses. Strictly speaking, talking about probability in the mathematical sense requires defining a sample space and well-defined events within it. But you can talk about reasonableness even without that. In that sense, an event with a high probability is reasonable, but not everything that is reasonable has a probability that can be calculated. For example, the principle of causality seems reasonable to me, but I do not know how to calculate the probability that it is true.

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