Scientific reasoning: the Bayesian approach

Chicago: Open Court. Edited by Peter Urbach (1993)
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Scientific reasoning is—and ought to be—conducted in accordance with the axioms of probability. This Bayesian view—so called because of the central role it accords to a theorem first proved by Thomas Bayes in the late eighteenth ...

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Peter Urbach
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