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endoself comments on [Link] The Bayesian argument against induction. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: endoself 19 July 2011 05:27:09PM 1 point [-]

Ey acknowledges that P(A|B) != P(A), ey just disputes that this can be called induction. This seems pointless to me; Bayesians can just define induction as cases where P(A|B) != P(A) and avoid this kind of word game.