[Avodah] tannur shel achnai

[David Riceman]

Micha Berger wrote:
> The principle of indifference says that if the die has 6 sides of
> equal weight, the probability of any particular side is 1/6.

No, it's a principle of psychology: it says that if you have no reason
to treat species differently then assign them the same probability.
Kavua simply says you have two species, permitted and forbidden, so
they're equally likely. Not good probability theory, but it was a long
time ago.

David Riceman