Friday, December 18, 2009

Dear Philosophy: I love you. I love you I love you I love you.

"This paper discusses abductive reasoning---that is, reasoning in which explanatory hypotheses are formed and evaluated. First, it criticizes two recent formal logical models of abduction. An adequate formalization would have to take into account the following aspects of abduction: explanation is not deduction; hypotheses are layered; abduction is sometimes creative; hypotheses may be revolutionary; completeness is elusive; simplicity is complex; and abductive reasoning may be visual and non-sentential. Second, in order to illustrate visual aspects of hypothesis formation, the paper describes recent work on visual inference in archaeology. Third, in connection with the evaluation of explanatory hypotheses, the paper describes recent results on the computation of coherence."

http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articles/Pages/%7FAbductive.html

Friday, December 11, 2009

Inspirational Sports Film



Um. I have issues with ISFs. But. Got chills watching this trailer.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Baby Pygmy Hippo!

I subscribe to this blog, and I save posts for emergencies. Like finals week.

Look at this house I found.

Made of gingerbread.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009