Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 08:40:19 01/19/04
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On January 19, 2004 at 11:32:51, Fernando Villegas wrote: >That argument that A win B and B win C, so A win C, but no sir, "not right", I >have heard it too many times and seems to be kind of an axiom, but it is not so >if you let aside the real of silogysm. >I would say that If A wins B 80% of times and B wins C 80% of times, there are >good reasonm to believe A will be superior to C some good % of times. >In other words, in a realm of probablilities, not sheer propositional logic, the >ABC string get anoter sense. >fdo B didn't win C 80% of times. Such a conclusion does not make any sense if A,B are computer programs and C is a human. Michael
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