He’s likely referring to the fact that the rules of probabilistic reasoning can be shown to be the only rules of reasoning that yield correct inferences from data. Bayesian statistics is in that sense the “logic of science”. The first chapter of E.T. Jaynes’s book with that subtitle [0] is a good introduction to these ideas if you haven’t seen them before.
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He’s likely referring to the fact that the rules of probabilistic reasoning can be shown to be the only rules of reasoning that yield correct inferences from data. Bayesian statistics is in that sense the “logic of science”. The first chapter of E.T. Jaynes’s book with that subtitle [0] is a good introduction to these ideas if you haven’t seen them before.
0. E.T. Jaynes (2003), “Probability Theory: the Logic of Science,” http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf [PDF]