On Aug 29, 6:50 pm, Brent Meeker <meeke....domain.name.hidden> wrote:
> marc.geddes wrote:
>
>
> > Ok, probablistic/axiomatic, none of it works without the correct
> > priors, which Bayes can't produce.
>
> Bayes explicitly doesn't pretend to produce priors - although some have
> invented ways of producing priors with minimum presumption (e.g. Jaynes
> maximum entropy priors). Analogical reasoning doesn't produce priors
> either and it can produce false conclusions too.
Actually, I think that's exactly what analogical reasoning *does* do
(analogies can produce priors by biasing thoughts in the right
direction by viewing reality through the 'lens' of categories -see
above, analogy is categorization),
>
> > I do. I think Bayes is just a special case of analogical reasoning ;)
>
> Then you can say analogical reasoning is just a special case of
> reasoning. Which then proves that reasoning is more fundamental than
> analogical reasoning. Then will you claim to have destroyed analogical
> reasoning. ??
>
> Brent-
No, I think the buck stops with analogical reasoning, since no form of
reasoning is more powerful. Analogical reasoning can produce priors
and handle knowledge representation (via categorization), Bayes can't.
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