A major weakness of the standard Bayesian inference method is that it assumes a problem only has two possible solutions.
This is not true at all.
A large chunk of academics would say that it is. For example, from the paper I was referencing in my post:
...At some point in history, a statistician may well write down a model which he or she believes contains all the systematic influences among properly defined variables for the system of interest, with correct functional forms and distributions of noise terms. This could happen, but we have never seen it, and in social science we have never seen anything that comes close. If nothing else, our own experience suggests that however many different specific
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