Justifying the norms of inductive inference

• Main Author: Vassend, Olav B.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Humanities::Philosophy; Inductive Inference; Bayesian
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/159993
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Bayesian inference is limited in scope because it cannot be applied in idealized contexts where none of the hypotheses under consideration is true and because it is committed to always using the likelihood as a measure of evidential favouring, even when that is inappropriate. The purpose of this art...