1. The Distinction Between Types and Tokens| plato.stanford.edu
Many people are fleeing social media, and my friend James Stanescu is trying to bring back blogging in response. He has an excellent post summarizing some of the differences between the pragmatisms of William James and C.S. Peirce. (I’ll call them “James” and “Scu” here for clarity.) Scu is drawing especially on Cheryl Misak’s capsule history, which itself is worth a read for reinvigorating the study of folks like Chauncey Wright and C.I. Lewis. | anotherpanacea
Part 1 of a sporadic series about wrongness| nealstephenson.substack.com
There is much debate about whether Large Language Models (LLMs) have reasoning capabilities: on the one hand, vendors and some researchers claim LLMs can reason; on the other, there are others who …| Eight to Late