Re:Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning
by Calavar on Saturday November 07, 2026 @02:04AM
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> A blade of a screw propeller functions exactly in the same way as a flapping wing of a bird, except that the wing cannot rotate without limits around the body of the bird
This is completely missing the forest for the trees. The "except" in your argument is doing an incredible amount of work. I think it's absurd to claim that the rotating blades of a turboprop are analagous to a bird's wings when planes l have separate structures quite literally called "wings" because they are directly inspired by bird wings. And I think the absurdity of that argument actually serves to prove my point.
This is completely missing the forest for the trees. The "except" in your argument is doing an incredible amount of work. I think it's absurd to claim that the rotating blades of a turboprop are analagous to a bird's wings when planes l have separate structures quite literally called "wings" because they are directly inspired by bird wings. And I think the absurdity of that argument actually serves to prove my point.