badger comments on Marketing rationalism - Less Wrong

10 Post author: PhilGoetz 12 April 2009 09:41PM

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 12 April 2009 10:39:22PM 0 points [-]

I'm not talking about convincing people who believe in reason to use probability theory. I meant, people who don't accept reason as the final arbiter in arguments. Which may still be most people.

Comment author: badger 12 April 2009 11:03:53PM 1 point [-]

I may have been unclear. I only meant Jaynes's approach as an analogy. I was speculating whether an approach based on common-sense desirata would work as well for rationality in general as it does for probability.