Perfect condensation means that the latent variables contributing to a set of givens are exactly the information we need to reconstruct the givens.
This feels like it has something in common with M. T. Bennett’s concept of “weakness”. As I understand it, the weakest hypothesis is the one which least restricts the range of possible worlds. His epistemology is to choose the weakest hypothesis, not the shortest.
This feels like it has something in common with M. T. Bennett’s concept of “weakness”. As I understand it, the weakest hypothesis is the one which least restricts the range of possible worlds. His epistemology is to choose the weakest hypothesis, not the shortest.