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I usually go to school relatively early nowadays, given that commute time is sub-optimal for any given day. I’m reading Ramsey’s Truth and Probability while waiting for the compiler to finish. On p.176 he wrote: i am at a cross-roads and do not know the way; but i rather think one of the two ways is right. i propose therefore to go that way but keep my eyes open for someone to ask; if now i see someone half a mile away over the fields, whether i turn aside to ask him will depend on the relative inconvenience of going out of my way to cross the fields or of continuing on the wrong road if it is the wrong road. but it will also depend on how confident i am that i am right; and clearly the more confident i am of this the less distance i should be willing to go from the road to check my opinion. i propose therefore to use the distance i would be prepared to go to ask, as a measure of the confidence of my opinion. Ramsey, Truth and Probability (p. 176) Ramsey then formalized with the degree

Jan 7, 2026, 03:50 GMT-8 philosophy pattern accumulation of jagged taste I keep circling a phrase: jagged taste. It names the edge left by commitment, the way taste becomes shaped by the bets it had to place and the roads it had to ignore. I usually go to school relatively early nowadays, given that commute time is sub-optimal for any given day i.e. me living in Toronto going to school in Hamilton . I’m reading Ramsey’s Truth and Probability while waiting for the compiler to finish. On p.176 he wrote: i am at a cross-roads and do not know the way; but i rather think one of the two ways is righ

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