Originally Posted by regnis View Post
All kidding aside, if one die is a 2, why are we still considering the 5 other options on that die?
Because the consideration of possible outcomes begins with the throw of pair of dice. That's how the probability of the event in question is computed in both classical and frequintist's definition of probability .
And not coming after the throw and trying to figure out what will be the possible outcomes for one particular die.