“Encyclopedia Brown is based on formal logic, not Bayesian probability.”
1) Formal logic isn’t the wrong model.
2) Encyclopedia Brown doesn’t rely on logic except in a very trivial sense.
3) Encyclopedia Brown relies on an extensive knowledge of trivia which happen to become relevant; rather than being especially intelligent, he merely has an excellent memory and a rudimentary capacity for reason.
“Encyclopedia Brown is based on formal logic, not Bayesian probability.”
1) Formal logic isn’t the wrong model. 2) Encyclopedia Brown doesn’t rely on logic except in a very trivial sense. 3) Encyclopedia Brown relies on an extensive knowledge of trivia which happen to become relevant; rather than being especially intelligent, he merely has an excellent memory and a rudimentary capacity for reason.