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genericpseudo | 8 years ago

Yes, when appropriate. Think of it as a Bayesian prior...

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mindcrime|8 years ago

Exactly. There's good reason to think that most of human reasoning and the way we attain "knowledge" is not strict deductive logic from firm premises. Rather it's a mixture of Bayesian inference, abductive reasoning "to the best explanation", etc.