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Comment author: eternal_neophyte 28 May 2015 07:51:00AM 0 points [-]

Definitions people can argue forever, but algorithms work or don't.

Well, sometimes we can't tell by any finitary means that they work since there are algorithms that cannot be proved either to terminate or not. Perhaps the practice of philosophy is just such an algorithm?