@KevinSimler It’s a bit hard to reconstruct the process, because for me it was 30 years ago. Suspect @sarahdoingthing flipped recently…
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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).
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@KevinSimler@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness Problem is both confirmation & falsification give us *some* info, so Popper view seems awkward. -
@AlleleOfGene Popper would say that confirmation buttresses knowledge only if the conf. attempt had the ability to disconfirm/falsify - 6 more replies
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@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness ok that's it, I'm all out :)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@KevinSimler@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness Is this along the lines of: https://twitter.com/afoolswisdom/status/574514301479735296 … ? Or am I misreading all. -
@sebinsua TBH I don't know. I find@afoolswisdom mostly impenetrable, but allusive to deep insight.
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@KevinSimler@sarahdoingthing@Meaningness "At some level, must be..." seems too powerful an argument. Applies to many views. -
@AlleleOfGene why too powerful in this case? what other description applies at some level to all knowledge-generation processes?
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