Dear all,
Apologies for any cross postings.
A colleague told me in recent years that some Bayesian, upon
being criticised by a classically-minded person for entertaining priors,
retorted with the assertion that the assumption of a parameterised model
is stronger than the assumption of priors on the parameters within that model.
I believe that the response was something about building in the sand
or building in the clouds.
Does anyone know this one?
Could you please give me some (more) particulars on who said this, where
and when, ideally with citation? I'd like to use it in an article I'm
writing with a philosopher.
Best wishes.
David.
Dr David Dowe, School of Computer Science and Software Eng.,
Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~dld/MML.html
