I wonder if we should just use the word Bayesian and drop “Rationalist”. It has an entrenched meaning opposite to empiricist. We can also use words like Skeptic, Scientists, Popperian, and the like in their traditional meanings.
I wonder if we should just use the word Bayesian and drop “Rationalist”. It has an entrenched meaning opposite to empiricist.
I think the traditional “rationalist/empiricist” dichotomy is most likely a confusion. I don’t mind at all if we end up helping to displace this terminology by spreading our sense of “rationalist”.
I wonder if we should just use the word Bayesian and drop “Rationalist”. It has an entrenched meaning opposite to empiricist. We can also use words like Skeptic, Scientists, Popperian, and the like in their traditional meanings.
But no one can be a Bayesian except in the statistical-method-advocacy sense of the term.
I think the traditional “rationalist/empiricist” dichotomy is most likely a confusion. I don’t mind at all if we end up helping to displace this terminology by spreading our sense of “rationalist”.