Most of the way good thinking happens IMO is by finding and using a good ontology for thinking about some situation, not by probabilistic calculation.
As a side point, this is a trendy view in epistemology. Most of our learning in real life is not a matter of reallocating credence among hypotheses we were already aware of according to Bayes’s theorem. Rather, most of our learning is becoming aware of new hypotheses that weren’t even in the domain of our prior credence function.
Beyond Uncertainty by Steele & Stefánsson is a good (and short) overview of approaches to awareness growth in formal epistemology.
As a side point, this is a trendy view in epistemology. Most of our learning in real life is not a matter of reallocating credence among hypotheses we were already aware of according to Bayes’s theorem. Rather, most of our learning is becoming aware of new hypotheses that weren’t even in the domain of our prior credence function.
Beyond Uncertainty by Steele & Stefánsson is a good (and short) overview of approaches to awareness growth in formal epistemology.