top | item 14814407 (no title) genericpseudo | 8 years ago Yes, when appropriate. Think of it as a Bayesian prior... discuss order hn newest 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.
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.
mindcrime|8 years ago