The Rationality of Science and the Inevitability of Defining Prior Beliefs in Empirical Research

Front Psychol. 2019 Aug 13:10:1866. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01866. eCollection 2019.

¹ Department of Cultural Studies and Languages, Faculty of Arts and Education, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway.

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Keywords: Bayesian statistics; epistemology; frequentist statistics; philosophy of science; prior probability function; rationality of science.