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Re:How to Do Philosophy by irrevenant on Friday February 29, 2008 @03:13AM (#125972)
"Of all the useful things we can say, which are the most general?"

As a hill-climbing algorithm, wouldn't this approach tend to result in the local optimum rather than the most general truths?

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Re:How to Do Philosophy by pg on Sunday March 02, 2008 @02:19PM (#127500)
That is an interesting question. I wonder if there is even a way to know if the space has merely local maximums.
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