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eavc on July 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Singularity U, or Singularity Woo?

>weigh evidence, arguments, and logic

Philosophy 101

Jach on July 6, 2012 [–]

What school even just mentions Bayes' theorem in Philosophy 101?

gwern on July 6, 2012 | [–]

> "All logic texts are divided into two parts. In the first part, on deductive logic, the fallacies are explained; in the second part, on inductive logic, they are committed."

--Morris Raphael Cohen, quoted by Cohen in "The Earth Is Round (p < 0.05)"

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