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Contraposition Posted 9 years ago
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Chance
The chances are a million to one against being struck by lightning.
What does this sentence mean?
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It means that out of a million possible scenarios, or "trials" in probability-speak, only one will result in you being struck by lightning.* The sentence does not define what constitutes a trial, so without more context it is largely meaningless. If there is no more context then possibly one is meant to understand "being struck by lightning" to mean "being struck by lightning at any time durin
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