Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
Bayesian inference
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Bayesian epistemology=== [[Bayesian epistemology]] is a movement that advocates for Bayesian inference as a means of justifying the rules of inductive logic. [[Karl Popper]] and [[David Miller (philosopher)|David Miller]] have rejected the idea of Bayesian rationalism, i.e. using Bayes rule to make epistemological inferences:<ref>{{cite book|first =David |last =Miller|title = Critical Rationalism|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bh_yCgAAQBAJ|isbn = 978-0-8126-9197-9|year = 1994|publisher = Open Court|location = Chicago}}</ref> It is prone to the same [[vicious circle]] as any other [[justificationism|justificationist]] epistemology, because it presupposes what it attempts to justify. According to this view, a rational interpretation of Bayesian inference would see it merely as a probabilistic version of [[falsifiability|falsification]], rejecting the belief, commonly held by Bayesians, that high likelihood achieved by a series of Bayesian updates would prove the hypothesis beyond any reasonable doubt, or even with likelihood greater than 0.
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)