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Dec 3 at 22:38 answer added Kaia timeline score: 2
Dec 3 at 22:02 comment added Kaia Here's the Stigler quote: The True Title of Bayes’s Essay, which seems like the origin of the claim.
Dec 3 at 21:35 comment added Kaia This question already has Price's: On the importance.... Here's "Of Miracles" from Hume and Bayes/Price doctrine of chances
Dec 3 at 21:03 comment added user80226 @NotThatGuy I ended up asking a separate question about the validity of the argument. You can now migrate your comments over to there: philosophy.stackexchange.com/q/119864/80226
Dec 3 at 20:09 comment added Conifold This is a nice story to tell, but it is a fable, see Gillies, Was Bayes a Bayesian?:"Bayes might have developed his mathematical results from a study of Jakob Bernoulli and of De Moivre, who may indeed have been his teacher... It is clear therefore that Hume may have influenced Bayes, but that there is no definite evidence that this was really the case."
Dec 3 at 20:06 comment added Ted Wrigley I don't see how this can be answered without some documentary evidence from Bayes (notes, or a letter, or something). You could ask whether Bayes' argument works as a refutation of Hume's (I think both arguments are tragically weak, personally), nut we can't really do mind-reading here.
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Dec 3 at 19:43 comment added user80226 @Him see above.
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Dec 3 at 19:38 comment added Him @NotThatGuy please don't leave answers in the comments. Consider submitting an answer.
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