Cyan comments on Your Evolved Intuitions - Less Wrong

15 Post author: lukeprog 05 May 2011 04:21PM

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Comment author: Cyan 05 May 2011 07:51:28PM 0 points [-]

Actually, it's:

If P, then Q is plausible. Q. Therefore P is plausible.

And it's a valid argument in probability theory as extended logic; see the first chapter of Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, which is available on the linked webpage.