That doesn’t answer my question as stated … I asked about ontology, you answered about probability.
If a list of theories is exhaustive, which is s big “if”, then one of them is true. And in the continuing absence of a really good explanation of Occams Razor, it doesn’t have to be the simplest.
But that doesn’t address the issue of summing theories, as opposed to summing probabilities.
Ok, tabooing the word ontology here. All that’s needed is an understanding of Bayesianism to answer the question of how you combine the chance of all other explanations.
It means that p(one of them is true) is more than p(simplest explanation is true)
That doesn’t answer my question as stated … I asked about ontology, you answered about probability.
If a list of theories is exhaustive, which is s big “if”, then one of them is true. And in the continuing absence of a really good explanation of Occams Razor, it doesn’t have to be the simplest.
But that doesn’t address the issue of summing theories, as opposed to summing probabilities.
But “all the other explanations combined” was talking about the probabilities. We’re not combining the explanations, that wouldn’t make any sense.
The only ontology that is required is Bayesianism, where explanations can have probabilities of being correct.
Bayesianism isn’t an ontology.
Ok, tabooing the word ontology here. All that’s needed is an understanding of Bayesianism to answer the question of how you combine the chance of all other explanations.