jaynes-1998-logic-of-science
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E.T. Jaynes' 'Probability Theory: The Logic of Science' (1998) frames Bayesian inference as an extension of deductive logic to scientific reasoning under uncertainty.
Summary
Jaynes argues that updating estimates with new evidence isn't a statistical shortcut but the natural generalization of the same logic used to prove theorems in math, just extended to situations where information is incomplete. For the system, this grounds every uncertainty-weighted conclusion in a coherent logical framework rather than treating it as ad hoc guessing, giving probabilistic inferences the same status as deductive ones.