Ah Dave,
You do me honor. If only I understood Peirce, better, let alone Bayes. We need Bybee (philosopher at St. Johns) to come do this for us. It does seem to me that Bayesian inference is a lot like abduction. And I had a vague notion that Peirce had read Bayes. Therefore I went to the Arisbe Site <http://www.cspeirce.com/> (the CS Peirce archive) where, to my astonishment, a search on "Bayes" produce exactly zero hits. So then I went to the Standford Encycopedia of Philosophy Peirce entry <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/> , and searched on Bayes, which produced a goldmine. I recommend it. That's not to say I understand it. I hope you can explain it to me when we next meet. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2015 9:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Physicists and Philosophers Debate the Boundaries of Science | Quanta Magazine I expect Nick to be prepared to argue why Pierce anticipated Bayesianism at the next meeting of FRIAM. davew On Sat, Dec 26, 2015, at 08:59 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: Something to keep you occupied until New Years Day. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151216-physicists-and-philosophers-debate-t he-boundaries-of-science/ =================================== Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM SPJ Region 9 Director [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 505-473-9646 =================================== ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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