Bayesian Informal Logic and Fallacy
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Bayesian Informal Logic and Fallacy
Bayesian reasoning has been applied formally to statistical inference, machine learning and analysing scientific method. Here I apply it informally to more common forms of inference, namely natural language arguments. I analyse a variety of traditional fallacies, deductive, inductive and causal, and find more merit in them than is generally acknowledged. Bayesian principles provide a framework ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Informal Logic
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0824-2577,0824-2577
DOI: 10.22329/il.v24i1.2132