Amen to this. Jaynes feels the need to be a vociferous partisan on the wrong side of an argument that was settled a century ago—all because of some simple, outright errors committed by other people. It would be like encountering faulty reasoning about group selection and then deciding to become a proponent of intelligent design as a result.
The treatment of Cox’s theorem, the constant angst about infinite sets, the annoying barbs against straw-man mathematicians.
Amen to this. Jaynes feels the need to be a vociferous partisan on the wrong side of an argument that was settled a century ago—all because of some simple, outright errors committed by other people. It would be like encountering faulty reasoning about group selection and then deciding to become a proponent of intelligent design as a result.