If prior revision is permitted without any normative constraint, LiberalBayesianism collapses into permissivism, undermining the very framework that makes Bayesian epistemology action-guiding.
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(Contrasted with orthodox Bayesianism; acknowledged to leave rationality operating without clear rules)
An approach that permits rational revision of prior probabilities in a non-rule-based fashion, allowing analogical arguments to shift opinion about already-existing hypotheses without new evidence
normative constraint(Used to evaluate whether a theory of motivating reasons is adequate)
The requirement that the reasons for which we act be good (normative) reasons.
permissivism(epistemology of disagreement)
The view that the same set of evidence can license different doxastic attitudes toward a proposition