Class 46: Explanation & Abductive Weakness

Reasoning to the best explnation is not all its cracked up to be. Indeed, it is nothing more than searching your memory. It cannot find explanations that are unknown, but correct. It all comes back to induction!

Written lecture: https://www.wmbriggs.com/class/ https://wmbriggs.substack.com/

Jaynes's book:
http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/GaussianModel/
JaynesProbabilityTheory.pdf

Uncertainty & Probability Theory: The Logic of Science

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