Quine's Argument: The Entire Web of Language Grounds into Experiment Coherently
geoffreyirving · x · 2026-08-23
Geoffrey Irving elaborates on Quine's argument that the loopy mess is fine. We cannot ground each sentence into experiment one at a time in a directed acyclic fashion, but the entire web of language does ground into experiment in a coherent fashion. This provides a philosophical perspective on how AI models establish links to reality indirectly through large-scale data.
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