| Publication Type | honors thesis |
| School or College | College of Humanities |
| Department | Philosophy |
| Faculty Mentor | Jonah N. Schuphach |
| Creator | Enda, Michael |
| Title | Bayesianism in a Social Context |
| Date | 2019 |
| Description | In this paper I push for and defend the adoption of a Bayesianism belief structure. Bayesianism is a belief structure based on the probability axioms of Kolmogorov. Given this, Bayesianism inherits the mathematical formulations of its origin. In order to explain and motivate the adoption of Bayesianism I provide a brief explanation of the underlying, inductive, logic and how it serves as a better formalize the inferences found in our natural language. Once the logical framework has been established I give a summary of the relevant parts of probability theory and how we can adopt the math to represent beliefs. Finally I justify how Bayesianism is still a valuable system of belief even if we are not perfect Bayesian agents. |
| Type | Text |
| Publisher | University of Utah |
| Subject | bayesianism; probability theory; inductive reasoning |
| Language | eng |
| Rights Management | © Michael Enda |
| Format Medium | application/pdf |
| Permissions Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6gb7t0w |
| ARK | ark:/87278/s6sf8k7b |
| Setname | ir_htoa |
| ID | 1588386 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6sf8k7b |