@KevinSimler Hmm… There’s a sudden gestalt figure/ground flip when you “get” the ethno view, and everything suddenly seems different.
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@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 4. The most important/broadest thing to say about this process is that it works by conjectures & falsification
@sarahdoingthing @Meaningness 4... In other words, the only way to get knowledge is to weed out non-knowledge, i.e., ideas that don't work
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@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 5. Whenever a system is "learning," this kind of trial&error must be occurring (at some level of description) -
@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness 5... even if there are other ways to describe what's happening (e.g. phenomenologically). - 8 more replies
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@KevinSimler What about categories of knowledge (eg math/logic) that seem to be derived/built up, rather than isolated through trial&error? -
@catehall even then, reasoning (esp. when critiqued by others) is a form of "empirical" testing. some arguments don't hold up to scrutiny - 2 more replies
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