Given your concession that Bayesianism is a formalisation of induction, I don't understand your original criticism that me saying inductivism renders Bayesian sterile is like saying solipsism renders physics sterile.
Here's a definition from David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality:
Crypto-Inductivist: Someone who believes that the invalidity of inductive reasoning raises a serious philosophical problem, namely the problem of how to justify relying on scientific theories.
Crypto-inductivists have an "induction shaped&... (read more)
Tim,
Re: Bayesianism and induction.
Given your concession that Bayesianism is a formalisation of induction, I don't understand your original criticism that me saying inductivism renders Bayesian sterile is like saying solipsism renders physics sterile.
Here's a definition from David Deutsch's "The Fabric of Reality:
Crypto-Inductivist: Someone who believes that the invalidity of inductive reasoning raises a serious philosophical problem, namely the problem of how to justify relying on scientific theories.
Crypto-inductivists have an "induction shaped&... (read more)