What do you call it when it’s like analytical philosophy, but interesting and useful
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well, there's modeling economic/environmental phenomena and/or working with proof assistants?
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Yeah snarky comment motivated by some very mathematically grounded philosophy of science actually
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I think it’s probably the analytic “language” philosophy that really makes me despair
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yeahh I can think of at least one argument clad in analytic language where that language just didn't help at all
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or as the famous philosopher Vatnam said, to really refer to a thing you need an unbroken causal connection, and that is much easier to establish when the tree in front of you is represented by an actual object in memory as opposed to being patternmatched from a bunch of atoms
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though the original paper (philosophy.as.uky.edu/sites/default/), while still broken, is better than the analytical formulation I looked at (iep.utm.edu/brainvat/#H2)