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Is it possible to agree to disagree?
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This is just another comment by a fly-by commenter, but I think that, in situations such as this, agreeing to disagree is considered to be a false surrender: that is, offering truce or falsely surrendering the position in order to misrepresent opponent's position as unprovable or ad nauseam while ignoring Aumann's agreement theorem. link
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I tried to understand what the link offers. But when I read this:
in a certain precise sense, I stopped and thought ...uh,
does this mean a vaguely precise sense (which is nonsense) or does it mean a definite precise sense. Not certain about what certain means.
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while ignoring Aumann's agreement theorem. link "If they each have common knowledge of their individual posteriors, then their posteriors must be equal." [Trying to keep a straight, scientific, face e]
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Good one, Avy. Seems a bit trivial to me to be fighting over.
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Seriously, Avy, it's common knowledge that my posterior has no equal.
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I’m sorry. But my patience is at an end!
Does that mean you're going to go away? I hope you didn't means this, the way it sounds, Faldage! Isn't this an open forum for discussion? All ideas have merit and I hope Steve and other posters aren't put off from expressing their findings and research.
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Seriously, Avy, it's common knowledge that my posterior has no equal. I am glad it is not equal to mine, Trom. Equal posteriors make not good teachers.
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I’m sorry. But my patience is at an end!
Does that mean you're going to go away? I hope you didn't means this, the way it sounds, Faldage! Isn't this an open forum for discussion? All ideas have merit and I hope Steve and other posters aren't put off from expressing their findings and research. I concur with Candy.
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Well--there are different ways of saying the same thing. For example, "Hey, I've done quite a bit of research, and it seems to show that there's a good possibility that some long and widely held beliefs may not be correct; what do people here think?" is very different from, "Hey, I've got this idea that goes against previously-held beliefs, and anybody who disagrees with me is just showing their ignorance." Just an example, you see.
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