{"id":552,"date":"2009-10-01T10:26:26","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T17:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/?p=552"},"modified":"2010-07-28T12:57:39","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T19:57:39","slug":"a-limerick-for-computational-epistemology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/01\/a-limerick-for-computational-epistemology\/","title":{"rendered":"A Limerick for Computational Epistemology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Holbo, in a\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/crookedtimber.org\/2009\/10\/01\/reality-thursday\/\">recent post<\/a> at the ever-entertaining Crooked Timber, challenged his readers to &#8220;write a song \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or poem \u00e2\u20ac\u201c expressing as clearly as you can, with extra style points for keeping it intelligible to an 8-year old \u00e2\u20ac\u201c your favored philosophy of science.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is my contribution:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>A Limerick for Computational Epistemology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Science finds <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hss.cmu.edu\/philosophy\/kelly\/papers\/learnreview.pdf\">a normative naturalist foundation<\/a><br \/>\nWhere logic meets mechanism in computation<br \/>\nWhose relevance to Man<br \/>\nIs supplied by an &#8216;aught&#8217; implying a &#8216;can&#8217;<br \/>\nAnd to truths we may converge without termination.<\/p>\n<p>This admittedly fails on the count of intelligibility, but it was a fun exercise nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Update:\u00c2\u00a0 Another entry of mine:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">I admit that Logical-Empiricism left me impressed<br \/>\nThough early forms couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pass the verification test.<br \/>\nAnd Constructive Empiricism<br \/>\nIs not without lyricism,<br \/>\nBut I find a variety of structural realism the best.<\/p>\n<dl id=\"comment_list\">\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Holbo, in a\u00c2\u00a0 recent post at the ever-entertaining Crooked Timber, challenged his readers to &#8220;write a song \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or poem \u00e2\u20ac\u201c expressing as clearly as you can, with extra style points for keeping it intelligible to an 8-year old \u00e2\u20ac\u201c your favored philosophy of science.&#8221; Here is my contribution: A Limerick for Computational Epistemology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71YpQ-8U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnnylogic.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}