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irrevenant on Feb 29, 2008 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Do Philosophy

"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?

pg on March 2, 2008 [–]

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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