What are the best examples of genuine progress in philosophy?
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Kolmogorov complexity is a measure based on the instruction length of the generating function. It follows the same logic of Ockham's razor. That is the Law of Parsimony. But this logic is a heuristic that is related more to the likelihood of causality than complexity.
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Taking this further, the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is extremely long yet its formulation can be scribbled in the margins of a book. The problem with many measures of complexity is that few of them are useful.
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To which statement does “no” apply?
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