The Role of Evidence in Decision Making

Bayesianism tries to mathematize this idea of inductivism as being about weighing the evidence in order to decide which theory is correct. The critical rationalist understanding is that theories are creatively conjectured and the function of evidence is to simply decide between them. For example, again, going back to Eddington's experiment in 1919, which decided between Newton's theory of gravity and Einstein's Theory of gravity. And it ruled out all other theories of gravity. It's not a matter of weighing. The evidence will actually rule out all the theories except for one. This is an ancient metaphor. Statues of justice have carried scale since antiquity. That's the way of understanding the philosophy of science