Ep 98: ”Knowledge” Chiara Marletto‘s ”The Science of Can and Can‘t” Ch 5 Readings and discussion.
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What Does Bayesianism Really Mean?
Bayesianism itself sometimes calls itself Bayesian confirmation theory so it's about confirmation and even where Bayesians try to be objective the fact remains that the entire epistemology is about assigning probabilities to claims. And who decides anyway either the earth is objectively orbiting the sun in which case the probability of that happening is one or it's not meaning that any calculation is completely and utterly pointless certainly in the physical sciences anyway. By what mechanism can we come up with these probabilities? The alternative anyway real physical reality either is the way that we explain it is or it’s not We either have probabilities of things actually being the case or they're not the case it's one or it'm zero
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