CJ Stevens - Metaphysiology<p>Who'd like to work out the "likelihood" that all this is simply coincidence? 😛</p><p>William <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Blake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blake</span></a> died in 1827, the same year as Pierre-Simon <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LaPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LaPlace</span></a>, and is buried in the same cemetery as Thomas <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bayes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bayes</span></a>. In 1788 Blake wrote this:</p><p>"...the ratio of all we have already known, is not the same that it shall be when we know more."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BayesianInference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BayesianInference</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/InverseProbability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InverseProbability</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WilliamBlake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WilliamBlake</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PierreSimonLaPlace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PierreSimonLaPlace</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThomasBayes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasBayes</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Statistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Statistics</span></a></p>