That's a really uncharitable take on what Rob tried to do there
No, we *deeply* disagree. The question is not so much whether a single given tool is the right one, but whether there is a principled way to find truth. His claim is that you cannot find the algorithm that decides what tool you should use: only minds can do that: by handwaving.
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My claim is not that this is impossible, only that Bayesianism does not actually do this. I'm not some sort of toolbox partisan on a deep philosophical level. There might be something that works as well as Bayesianism is *purported* to, I just haven't seen it!
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("Works as well" in a philosophical sense, not tool performance sense, I mean)
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