#bayesian approach

Bayesian approach in the context of falsifiability

Among the attempts to dismantle the first horn of Hume’s fork, Henderson mentions Kant’s approach discussed later and that of Bayes. Bayesian logic is not ampliative: it does not provide more information than that contained in the premises and observations. As mentioned in Henderson’s analysis, this attempted justification requires a synthetic a priori proposition which, in this case, is a way of…