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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 17 January 2012 08:12:58AM 2 points [-]

I'd like to illustrate the stagnation of academic philosophy with the following thought experiment. Let's suppose someone has solved the problem of induction. What is the solution like?

Ten pages? Hundred pages? Thousand pages? Does it contain no formulae or few formulae? Does it contain a lot of formulae?

I'll go with 61 pages and quite a few formulae.

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