Even the scientific method itself can be understood as a Bayesian process, in which scientific hypotheses are updated by new evidence from experiments. Conceiving of science in this way is distinct from both the “paradigm shifts” of Thomas Kuhn, in which entire scientific edifices are overturned as inconsistent evidence accumulates, and the “falsificationist” views of Karl Popper, where hypotheses are raised and tested one by one, like balloons released into the sky and then shot down. In the philosophy of science, the Bayesian perspective has most in common with the views of the Hungarian
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