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#424 - Steven Pinker - The Problem With Trying To Be Rational
Modern Wisdom
Basoning, Basian Rationalism
Basian reasoning is a term that i've come up against previously, and yet i've never really understood how to use the principle of basian reasoning to apply it to my own life on a day to day basis. Do you think that every person should understand bas rule, and that it's almost a membership requirement that you you understand it and endorse it? It's a the eponymous rule of the reverend thomas from the eighteenth century. The point of bays rule is what's called a posterior probability. Posterior just means, after you've looked at the evidence.
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