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Comment author: nshepperd 19 September 2013 02:18:58AM 2 points [-]

IIRC a common claim was that modeling beliefs at all is "subjective" and therefore unscientific.

Comment author: RobbBB 19 September 2013 05:00:12AM *  0 points [-]

Do you have any links to this argument? I'm having a hard time seeing why any mainstream scientist who thinks beliefs exist at all would think they're ineffable....

Comment author: nshepperd 21 September 2013 12:52:31PM 0 points [-]

Hmm, I thought I had read it in Jaynes' PT:TLoS, but I can't find it now. So take the above with a grain of salt, I guess.