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This is awesome! I am definitely going to read some Leibniz after this. Would you recommend his Monadology? To say "only God can understand the future" is an
by rexpop 10y ago
This is awesome! I am definitely going to read some Leibniz after this. Would you recommend his Monadology?
To say "only God can understand the future" is an unnecessary personification of our incompleteness.
I think the future of declarative functions is pretty clear.
Today foo(x) = 2x, tomorrow foo(x) = 2x. Anything we can't say is simply a dearth of information. How useful is it to say we've a dearth of "future information"?
Anyway, we give names to sets of propositions, and that's a neat trick.
- catawbasam 10y ago"an unnecessary personification of our incompleteness." Not unnecessary according to Leibniz. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology