Full Idea
Keen supporters of Bayesianism say it can show how induction is rational and can lead to truth, and it can reveal the underlying structure of actual scientific reasoning.
Gist of Idea
Bayesianism claims to find rationality and truth in induction, and show how science works
Source
Alexander Bird (Philosophy of Science [1998], Ch.6)
Book Reference
Bird,Alexander: 'Philosophy of Science' [UCL Press 2000], p.203
A Reaction
See Idea 2798 for Bayes' Theorem. I find it intuitively implausible that our feeling for probabilities could be reduced to precise numbers, given the subjective nature of the numbers we put into the equation.
Related Idea
Idea 2798 Probability of H, given evidence E, is prob(H) x prob(E given H) / prob(E) [Horwich]