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Then there is that issue on the ease and hence costlessness of choice.
June 2006 2006
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Then there is that issue on the ease and hence costlessness of choice.
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They have watchers 'bungalows or chalets on the ground cultivated, but the ease and the costlessness of modern locomotion enables them to maintain a group of residences in the nearest town with a common dining-room and club house, and usually also a guild house in the national or provincial capital.
The World Set Free Herbert George 1914
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But the forces of technological evolution, economics and the anarchy, freedom and costlessness of the internet cannot be contained.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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But the forces of technological evolution, economics and the anarchy, freedom and costlessness of the internet cannot be contained.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Julian’s point about the fundamental non-sequitur of the argument is perhaps sufficient; but I agree with dan; I think the fallacy of costlessness damns the wager argument whereas pointing out the insensibility just sidelines it.
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To me, it’s a reminder that Pascal’s wager really does rely on the absolute costlessness of the alternative, and that’s very debateable.
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