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Old 01-09-2003, 05:02 PM   #21
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There is no reason to assume that nothing causes one side of a coin to land up, rather than the other.
I'm quite aware of that. I also said so in my post:

Theli: If we were to assume that fliping a coin was random (even if it isn't)

The point of the example was not to argue weither or not the coin was actually random, but if we assumed that it was, what would make the change?
I could ofcourse give another example, but then the same argument would arise.
There's a problem with true chaos existing, and there's a problem with true chaos not existing.
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Whether we assume that something is random, changes nothing.

The existing factors that cause the coin to land 'heads-up' remain, regardless of our assumptions.

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Old 01-10-2003, 09:26 AM   #23
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Keith...

I have never said that a coin was in fact random, nor have I stated that my assuming so will change the way a tossed coin acts. It was an example that would lead to another question (a more important question), but if you are incapable of seeing past that then why bother replying in the first place?
It serves no more purpose than pointing out a spelling-error.
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