The biggest weakness, in my opinion, with purely (or almost purely) probabilistic reasoning is the fact that it cannot ultimately do away with us relying on a number of (ultimately faith/belief based) choices as to how we understand our reality.
In your opinion, is there some other form of reasoning that avoids this weakness?
That's a very complicated question but I'll try to do my best to answer.
In many ancient cultures, they used two words for the mind, or for thinking, and it is still used figuratively today. "In my heart I know..."
In my opinion, in terms of expected impact on the course of life for a given subject, generally, more important than their understanding of Bayesian reasoning, is what they 'want' ... how they define themselves. Consciously, and unconsciously.
For "reasoning", no I doubt there is a better system. But since we must (or almost un...
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