Quine and Strawson; analytic philosophers, tried to model language and logic in an epistemology context yet not so much of the world. Empiricism tried to make a direct relationship between thought, propositions, and the material world Cf A.J. Ayer- ‘Language,Truth and Logic’. Quine refuted the relation in The Two Dogmas of Empiricism. Skepticism about knowing reality comprehensively is generally on the same side of epistemology as Quine concerning the analytic/synthetic distinction.
A.I. uses formal symbolic logic developed in part by analytic philosophers who were logicians obviously. Yet I would venture that the philosophical justification is found elsewhere in philosophy for explaining realty. Possibly that is pragmatism and quantum theory fused with other speculative cosmology and physics. A.I. is fascinating because it can directly be formed with human authored language and exists in the real world, albeit without sentience. If it had sentience it would have an even worse analytic/synthetic distinction paradox than humans.
What works in explaining the heteronymous phenomenality of mind and reality… a kind of ambiguous duality, is analytic philosophical deliberation on mind, language, prositional logic and the quantum ‘other’ world.
Quine and Putnam invented the indispensibility argument and brought Quine to be a realist or even platonist on math, yet I know he took a nominalist position on language when critiquing Kripke’s neo-realism.
Charles Sanders Pierce invented pragmatism. C.S. (pronounced purse). He had an interesting life and was fired from a teaching job at Johns Hopkins for marrying a Romani.
There is use of Pierce’s scientific method criteria in contemporary applications in programming and tech
People have commented it is similar to the OODA loop.
On mind Pierce considered ideas to form in a trielectical evolution psychologically. Perhaps he was influenced by Hegel- that isn’t likely though.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/peirce/#:~:text=So%2C%20as%20it%20turns%20out,greatest%20lower%20bound)%20in%20C.
He ended up living “in near penury”. I wonder if the Quine-Putnam ‘indispensability argument to categorize math as realist is an example of pragmatic reasoning.
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