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Wed Dec-06-06 04:51 PM
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| 13. As I was saying a couple years ago to a DUer who had experienced |
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a string of failing laptops,
". . . in the specific case of coincidences ... there is an unspecified element, which makes the probability of coincidences higher than we otherwise might have thought. Although the person is specific (you), we do not specify what kind of coincidence will take place . . . I'm not saying coincidence is common - only that it's not as rare as we think. The reason is that the aggregation of causes happens in so many possible ways that eventually a coincidence becomes unavoidable."
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