I was asked why Bayesianism is not an epistemology and what is alternative. Answers in http://meaningness.com/probability-and-logic … & http://meaningness.com/metablog/how-to-think … …
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I realize this is reductionist in the extreme, but my bedrock epistemology has always been "trial and error."
"Keep what works, discard what doesn't" is the rule behind every process that generates knowledge.
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The operative (and human-complete) word here is "works." But the "keep/discard" part of the rule is simple and universal.
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I agree this is an important principle, but I think it’s a small part of the puzzle, not a general theory.
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robot turtle epistemology
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err, there was meant to be a link there http://maradydd.livejournal.com/529435.html
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But then Bayesians will say that it's just an approximation to Bayesian updating with a Solomonoff prior
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Which could be, but we humans do much better than that.
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"You'll never get there!" "No, but it won't be long before I'm close enough for practical purposes."
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boxes and arrows can be used to diagram many systems but it's still worth learning about each system
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