thomblake comments on Your Evolved Intuitions - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: thomblake 05 May 2011 07:55:01PM 3 points [-]

Simplified & short; If P, then Q. Q. Therefore, P.

While propositional logic may be a special case of Bayesian reasoning, the Bayes's theorem formalization of the scientific method cannot be usefully reduced to propositional logic.

Also, welcome to Less Wrong!. It sounds like you may want to check out Bayes' Theorem and/or Technical Explanation.

Comment author: Sblast 05 May 2011 08:06:40PM 5 points [-]

Thank you for the kind welcome. Will read.