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Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 15 February 2013 02:59:27PM 5 points [-]

If you compared probabilities of models based on consistency with the data and their overall plausibility, I'd call that close enough to be on the outskirts of Bayesian - and with the qualifier 'unintentional', which indicates that you're not going to be precisely formally correct, I'd say it fits.