I really don't know enough to speak of it authoritatively. (I've had no training in the area and have picked up all my knowledge as an autodidact; I cannot purport to explain the field as it is practiced by the knowledgeable. I'm trying to level up in it and am becoming quite the non-fan of Derrida in the process ...) I wrote a bit here, see "p.s." points at the end.

(This week's all-but-idle progress on "Bayesian postmodernism" is correctly sorting other uses of the word "theory". My current tentative notion is that quite a lo... (read more)