It warms the cockles of my heart whenever a book opens with the limits of its epistemology.
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There are a lot of shit takes on Boyd out there. This is the fourth book I'm reading on the topic; I think it'll be the last. It is certainly the best.
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Which ones are 💩 so I can avoid?
I bought this (in my queue for 2 years haven’t read a word) and finished another (certain to win)
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Certain to Win is pretty shit. Which is a bummer, because I wanted a business oriented book.
Thankfully, while Osinga just lays out all the basic principles, it shouldn’t be difficult for a business person to mine for applications.
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> Osinga just lays out all the basic principles,
I’m less sure. Either he didn’t or he did but also wrote so much of other stuff. But I merely scanned the table of contents so I’m probably wrong
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I will admit that I had a passing familiarity with all the 'other stuff'. Osinga attempts to place Boyd's ideas in an intellectual backdrop. Which explains chapters 2-4; those are about the epistemological wars in science and philosophy at the time, that influenced him.
If you don't care for that, skip those and go from chapter 1 to chapter 5.
Or go to the end (7) and then jump back to read 5 and 6.
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