On Sunday, June 27, 2021 at 10:56:33 PM UTC+2 Jason wrote: > > By chance I was just reading this: > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/286624424_My_8_Big_Ideas by > Zuboff, and in it he shows how to justify induction through a priori > reasoning: > > "By the same reasoning > as above, if all the first beads randomly drawn are blue, it is becoming > more and more > probable that the beads in the urn are generally blue. (Otherwise > something improbable > would be happening in another colour not appearing; and what’s improbable > is improbable.) > It is therefore probable also that the next bead drawn will be blue. This > is induction. As Hume > would have said, we could not know a priori, given this evidence, that the > next bead will be > blue. But, as he overlooked, we can know a priori, given this evidence, > that it is probable that > the next bead will be blue. >
That makes sense. I am wondering, if this idea was worked out in more detail maybe it would end up being the same as Solomonoff's theory of induction? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/d2d0669f-0b17-45d8-a568-1aaa0d2e13f1n%40googlegroups.com.
