I believe that you are fundamentally wrong about this, and that you actually use induction and probabilities.
This is the old argument that CR smuggles induction in via the backdoor. Critical Rationalists have given answers to this argument. Search, for example, what Rafe Champion has to say about induction smuggling. Why have you not done research about this before commenting? You point is not original.
First, because without induction, no reasoning about the real world is possible. Do you expect that (at least approximately) the same laws of physics apply yesterday, today, and tomorrow? If they don’t, then you can’t predict anything about the future (because under the hypothetical new laws of physics, anything could happen).
Are you familiar with what David Deutsch had to say about this in, for example, The Fabric of Reality? Again, you have not done any research and you are not making any new points which have not already been answered.
Specifically, Bayes Theorem is not about “goodness” of an idea; it is about mathematical probability. Unlike “goodness”, probabilities can actually be calculated. If you put 90 white balls and 10 black balls in a barrel, the probability of randomly drawing a white ball is 90%. If there is one barrel containing 90 white balls and 10 black balls, and another barrel containing 10 white balls and 90 black balls, and you choose a random barrel, randomly draw five balls, and get e.g. four white balls and one black ball, you can calculate the probability of this being the first or the second barrel. It has nothing to do with “goodness” of the idea “this is the first barrel” or “this is the second barrel”.
Critical Rationalists have also given answers to this, including Elliot Temple himself. CR has no problem with the probabilities of events—which is what your example is about. But theories are not events and you cannot associate probabilities with theories. You have still not made an original point which has not been discussed previously.
Why do you think that some argument which crosses your mind hasn’t already been discussed in depth? Do you assume that CR is just some mind-burp by Popper that hasn’t been fully fleshed out?
they’ve never learned or dealt with high-quality ideas before. they don’t think those exist (outside certain very specialized non-philosophy things mostly in science/math/programming) and their methods of dealing with ideas are designed accordingly.
This is the old argument that CR smuggles induction in via the backdoor. Critical Rationalists have given answers to this argument. Search, for example, what Rafe Champion has to say about induction smuggling. Why have you not done research about this before commenting? You point is not original.
Are you familiar with what David Deutsch had to say about this in, for example, The Fabric of Reality? Again, you have not done any research and you are not making any new points which have not already been answered.
Critical Rationalists have also given answers to this, including Elliot Temple himself. CR has no problem with the probabilities of events—which is what your example is about. But theories are not events and you cannot associate probabilities with theories. You have still not made an original point which has not been discussed previously.
Why do you think that some argument which crosses your mind hasn’t already been discussed in depth? Do you assume that CR is just some mind-burp by Popper that hasn’t been fully fleshed out?
they’ve never learned or dealt with high-quality ideas before. they don’t think those exist (outside certain very specialized non-philosophy things mostly in science/math/programming) and their methods of dealing with ideas are designed accordingly.