'The statistician cannot evade the responsibility for understanding the process he applies or recommends.' -- Sir Ronald A. Fisher

Gödel (1940): The continuum hypothesis is not false. Cohen (1964): The continuum hypothesis is not true. (It's undecidable.)

Dartmouth Conference (summer 1956) — first use of the word “artificial intelligence.” This is widely considered the birth of AI as a formal field. Here, the term “Artificial Intelligence” was coined, and researchers proposed that “every aspect of learning or any other feature of

This book argues for the pragmatist thesis of the primacy of praxis on a phenomenological basis.

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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.--William James

We shall find, when we get further into the subject, that all these different uses of likeness may be brought under one general formula. 

Pierce, Egipto y las ideas pictóricas

“It is worth noting that notation facilitates discovery. This, in a most wonderful way, reduces the mind’s labors.” —Leibniz

Indications. But pictures alone, – pure likenesses, – can never convey the slightest information. [An image] leaves the spectator uncertain whether it is a copy of something actually existing or a mere play of fancy. The same thing is true of general language and of all symbols.

No combination of words (excluding proper nouns, and in the absence of gestures or other indicative concomitants of speech) can ever convey the slightest information.