I know I keep leaving comments pointing to this post of mine (I would stop if I felt like its contents had entered the collective consciousness, but they haven’t and I wrote the post to change that so here we are), but all three of these enigmas are instances of the problem of the criterion. Reading through the comments, I feel like most of them come down to folks continuing to struggle to come to terms with the problem and its implications.
Yeah, these are definitely instances of the problem of the criterion. I actually had a link to your post in the original version of this post but somehow it got edited out as I was moving things around before publishing.
It’s like with math talks: no matter how incomplete it has to be, you must always prove at least one statement. So instead of only linking to a reference, or only naming an idea, write at least one argument suitable to the occasion that holds hope of offering something new and making sense on its own, even if it’s just two sentences.
I know I keep leaving comments pointing to this post of mine (I would stop if I felt like its contents had entered the collective consciousness, but they haven’t and I wrote the post to change that so here we are), but all three of these enigmas are instances of the problem of the criterion. Reading through the comments, I feel like most of them come down to folks continuing to struggle to come to terms with the problem and its implications.
Yeah, these are definitely instances of the problem of the criterion. I actually had a link to your post in the original version of this post but somehow it got edited out as I was moving things around before publishing.
It’s like with math talks: no matter how incomplete it has to be, you must always prove at least one statement. So instead of only linking to a reference, or only naming an idea, write at least one argument suitable to the occasion that holds hope of offering something new and making sense on its own, even if it’s just two sentences.