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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by fabianhjr on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @10:51PM (#21405299)
> The problem with degrees of truth is that they aren't composable into an argument. I can chain together a handful of things that are 99% true and arrive at an absurd conclusion because the 1% is the interesting bit.

For a general view:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Probabilistic_logic

Bayesian side:

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/A_priori_probability

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Bayesian_inference (Bayesian Updating)

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Re:Twitter to ban political advertising by dariosalvi78 on Thursday October 31, 2019 @07:51AM (#21407685)
No, there are formal systems for handling uncertainty, Bayesian inference, fuzzy logic etc. Even informally we do apply similar rules all the time (though we are not free of biases)
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