Probability in a philosophical nutshell

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Date	2006-12-06
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• Nihilism holds that there is no inherent meaning, value, truth or purpose to the world.
• Agnosticism holds that the truth is either not known or inherently unknowable.
• Uncertainty is the state of being in doubt.
• Probability is a function used to assign odds to that which is unknown by way of what is known.
• Estimation Deals with inexact representation.
• Belief is the state of holding what is not certain to be true.
• Justified true belief is what is both believed and true.
• Certainty is the state of being without doubt.
• Determinism holds that all occurances are causally determined by unbroken chains of previous occurances.

From this wikipedia discussion page.