The physicist used to make a joke about a posteriori conclusions, as they are called.
“You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight,” he would say. “I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what wad the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!”
His point, of course, was that it is easy to make any banal situation seem extraordinary if you treat it as fateful.
2007-01-17
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