You know what, if you were to actually have to program a conclusion-drawing machine, not just philosophize about it, I’d bet that your decision algorithm in which conclusions are drawn “based upon the rationality of their assertions alone” would be indistinguishable from a decision algorithm in which conclusions are based on “‘evidence’ (which are opinions)”.
You might name the functions differently through, you might have a “concludeBasedOnRationailty()” function instead of a “concludeBasedOnEvidence()” function. I bet it would still translate into the same code, because there’s not a single word you’ve stated that relates to anything other than how we name things.
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You know what, if you were to actually have to program a conclusion-drawing machine, not just philosophize about it, I’d bet that your decision algorithm in which conclusions are drawn “based upon the rationality of their assertions alone” would be indistinguishable from a decision algorithm in which conclusions are based on “‘evidence’ (which are opinions)”.
You might name the functions differently through, you might have a “concludeBasedOnRationailty()” function instead of a “concludeBasedOnEvidence()” function. I bet it would still translate into the same code, because there’s not a single word you’ve stated that relates to anything other than how we name things.