 It is now widely held that the core idea of this syntactic approach to Bayesian logicism is fatally flawed—that syntactic logical structure cannot be the sole determiner of the degree to which premises inductively support conclusions. A crucial facet of the problem faced by syntactic Bayesian logicism involves how the logic is supposed to apply in scientific contexts where the conclusion sentence is some scientific hypothesis or theory, and the premises are evidence claims. The difficulty is that in any probabilistic logic that satisfies the usual axioms for probabilities, the inductive support for a hypothesis must depend in part on its prior probability. This prior probability represents (arguably) how plausible the hypothesis is taken to be on the basis of considerations other than the observational and experimental evidence (e.g., perhaps due to various plausibility arguments). A syntactic Bayesian logicist must tell us how to assign values to these pre-evidential prior probabilities of hypotheses in a way that relies only on the syntactic logical structure of the hypothesis, perhaps based on some measure of syntactic simplicity. There are severe problems with getting this idea to work. Various kinds of examples seem to show that such an approach must assign intuitively quite unreasonable prior probabilities to hypotheses in specific cases (see the footnote cited near the end of  Section 3.2  for details). Furthermore, for this idea to apply to the evidential support of real scientific theories, scientists would have to formalize theories in a way that makes their relevant syntactic structures apparent, and then evaluate theories solely on that syntactic basis (together with their syntactic relationships to evidence statements). Are we to evaluate alternative theories of gravitation, and alternative quantum theories, this way? This seems an extremely dubious approach to the evaluation of real scientific hypotheses and theories. Thus, it seems that logical structure alone may not suffice for the inductive evaluation of scientific hypotheses. (This issue will be treated in more detail in  Section 3,  after we first see how probabilistic logics employ Bayes’ theorem to represent the evidential support for hypotheses as a function of prior probabilities together with evidential likelihoods.)