One of the most important epistemic skills is placing a surprising claim in its “causal neighborhood”pic.twitter.com/l4U4VlDpGs
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basically Ramsey says parsimony is satisfied when the new theory is a "conservative extension" of the existing universe, i.e: minimally disruptive to the neighborhood while still sufficient to explain its object
was thinking about nancy cartwright’s stuff on various meaning of “mechanism” but hard to link to
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just found http://www.profnancycartwright.com and now can't help but wonder if part of the reason it exists is people kept complaining about hits for the voice actress swamping google results
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