On Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:21:22 -0500, Ben Goertzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As I see it, science is about building **collective** subjective
understandings among a group of rational individuals coping with a
shared environment
That is consistent with the views of de Finetti and other subjectivists.
In their view our posteriors all converge in the end anyway, so it
shouldn't matter if there are no 'objective' probabilities.
However, my view is not the most common one, I would suppose...
I'm quite sure you're correct about that.
A minority subjectivist, attempting to communicating his bayesian
conclusions to an non-subjectivist colleague in the majority, could be met
with the disconcerting response that his numbers are mere statements about
his psychology. :/ Thus there exists a strong disincentive to be
subjectivist in the natural sciences, no matter the philosophical
consequences.
-gts
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