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Main Author: Soudin, Sheldon Z.
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03026
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contents Making sense of theory choice in normal and across extraordinary science is central to philosophy of science. The emergence of machine learning models has the potential to act as a wrench in the gears of current debates. In this paper, I will attempt to reconstruct the main movements that lead to and came out of Putnam's critical and explanatory tendency distinction, argue for the biconditional necessity of the tendencies, and conceptualize that wrench through a machine learning interpretation of my claim.
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spellingShingle Putnam's Critical and Explanatory Tendencies Interpreted from a Machine Learning Perspective
Soudin, Sheldon Z.
Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Making sense of theory choice in normal and across extraordinary science is central to philosophy of science. The emergence of machine learning models has the potential to act as a wrench in the gears of current debates. In this paper, I will attempt to reconstruct the main movements that lead to and came out of Putnam's critical and explanatory tendency distinction, argue for the biconditional necessity of the tendencies, and conceptualize that wrench through a machine learning interpretation of my claim.
title Putnam's Critical and Explanatory Tendencies Interpreted from a Machine Learning Perspective
topic Computers and Society
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03026