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What are the notable unanswered questions about knowledge and the structure of knowledge? Are any of them potentially answerable in a definitive fashion? One
by WillAdams 3y ago
What are the notable unanswered questions about knowledge and the structure of knowledge?
Are any of them potentially answerable in a definitive fashion?
One question I keep asking is:
>What does an algorithm look like?
in the context of whether visual programming systems make sense and are workable.
- alpinisme 3y agoMany questions that aren’t definitively answerable are nonetheless worth repeating to ask each generation, since the alternative is an ossified answer treated as if it were definitive (ie a particularly stagnant religious dogma) or that we fall back on simplistic answers that further thought would trouble. Questions of value and purpose and the use of power are chief among these.