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Flat Earth General / Re: Other Planets
« on: September 09, 2021, 07:42:22 AM »
As it turns out, each planet we view that is round actually makes it more probable that the earth is flat - this is one of the issues behind the problem of induction. Since the earth being flat has a non-zero probability, each time we observe a round object it reduces the solution space, thus making the non-zero probability have a higher likelihood.
More than this, the idea is logically faulty. I may see a grey goose out my window each day. Does this mean all geese are grey? In other words, since I can say Object A and Object B are both blue, does that make Object C blue? or Object D? Or all other objects?!
Common sense tells us, if everything of something we see has the same shape/size/proportions, then they all have this. Or would that mean that the more spherical planets we see (all of them) the higher is also the chance of Earth being square, triangle, donut...whatever size?
Your geese analogy is also wrong. We don't just see one planet being spherical and assume Earth is too, we have seen thousands and all of them are spherical. Not to mention that all the suns are also spherical.
I mean, I have only ever seen (by my own eyes and on video) that elephants are grey. And every biology and animal book tells me elephants are grey. So I assume that every elephant is grey. But the more grey elephants I see, the higher is the chance of elephants existing that are green, purple, yellow, red...?