What is the relationship between CR and other processes that can create knowledge, such as induction and deduction? Are the latter a subset of the former? What does ‘induction is impossible’ mean, that it cannot be used as a starting point or something stronger? Can CR be not only a starting point but also the only process necessary?
CR has arguments refuting induction – it doesn’t work, has never been done, cannot be done. Induction is a myth, a confusion, a misconception that doesn’t even refer to a well-defined physically-possible process of thought. (This is partly old – that induction doesn’t work has been an unsolved problem for ages – but CR offers some improved critical arguments instead of the usual hedges and excuses for believing in induction despite the probelsm.) Deduction is fine but limited.
Can CR be not only a starting point but also the only process necessary?
Induction, as the prediction of observations without necessarily having an explanation of the regularity, works just fine. The anti induction argument is purely against induction as a source of hypotheses or explanations. Everyone has given up on that idea, and the pro induction people don’t even use the word that way. There is a lot of talking-past bere.
What is the relationship between CR and other processes that can create knowledge, such as induction and deduction? Are the latter a subset of the former? What does ‘induction is impossible’ mean, that it cannot be used as a starting point or something stronger? Can CR be not only a starting point but also the only process necessary?
CR has arguments refuting induction – it doesn’t work, has never been done, cannot be done. Induction is a myth, a confusion, a misconception that doesn’t even refer to a well-defined physically-possible process of thought. (This is partly old – that induction doesn’t work has been an unsolved problem for ages – but CR offers some improved critical arguments instead of the usual hedges and excuses for believing in induction despite the probelsm.) Deduction is fine but limited.
Yes.
If induction has never been done, what do machine learning algorithms whose authors think it does induction do?
Those don’t learn. The coders are the knowledge creators and the machine does grunt work.
That’s an epicycle. You can patch up your theory, but the fact that you need to doesn’t speak wel for it.
What?
Induction, as the prediction of observations without necessarily having an explanation of the regularity, works just fine. The anti induction argument is purely against induction as a source of hypotheses or explanations. Everyone has given up on that idea, and the pro induction people don’t even use the word that way. There is a lot of talking-past bere.