[ExI] Bayesian epistemology

[Russell Wallace]

On 8/6/07, Jef Allbright <jef at jefallbright.net> wrote:
> Russell, I'm sorry if you felt an implication of harm in my response
> to your initiation of this thread.  I've been deep in software
> engineering for the last several weeks and it tends to bring out my
> analytical side, parsing **everything** literally and logically and
> critically.  You and Lee and Gordon wind up being the unhappy
> recipients of my "gifts" of criticism, perhaps unaware that if I
> didn't respect you I wouldn't have even bothered to engage.

No problem, I know how that goes!

> I strongly agree with your point that the Bayesian suffers when it
> becomes the Bayesianistic.

Right, I wasn't sure from your earlier reply, which seemed to be
expressing disagreement in general terms but then making a number of
specific comments that were consistent with mine, so I figured I'd
come back to it later, seems we're in agreement then ^.^