HN
Hacker News
Top
New
Best
Ask
Show
Jobs
Comment by genericpseudo | Hacker News Reader
Parent
Full thread
genericpseudo
·
Yes, when appropriate. Think of it as a Bayesian prior...
View on HN
mindcrime
·
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.
Reply on news.ycombinator.com