-”Bayesians reason about truth this way because they are designed to treat knowledge as justified, true belief, reflecting a popular theory in analytic philosophy of what knowledge is.”
Hasn’t that theory been discredited (by Gettier)? I don’t think it is popular anymore.
Yes, but the point stands that, to the best of my understanding, the this is the sort of knowledge folks like von Neumann had in mind when they laid the groundwork for what would become our modern model of Bayesian reasoners.
-”Bayesians reason about truth this way because they are designed to treat knowledge as justified, true belief, reflecting a popular theory in analytic philosophy of what knowledge is.”
Hasn’t that theory been discredited (by Gettier)? I don’t think it is popular anymore.
Yes, but the point stands that, to the best of my understanding, the this is the sort of knowledge folks like von Neumann had in mind when they laid the groundwork for what would become our modern model of Bayesian reasoners.