John Holbo, in a recent post at the ever-entertaining Crooked Timber, challenged his readers to “write a song – or poem – expressing as clearly as you can, with extra style points for keeping it intelligible to an 8-year old – your favored philosophy of science.” Here is my contribution: A Limerick for Computational Epistemology Science finds a normative naturalist foundation Where logic meets mechanism in computation Whose relevance to Man Is supplied by an ‘aught’ implying a ‘can’ And to truths we may converge without termination. This admittedly fails on the count of intelligibility, but it was a fun […]
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