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Reza-Negarestani Three-Nightmares-of-the-Inductive-Mind Glass-Bead 2017
"Reza-Negarestani Three-Nightmares-of-the-Inductive-Mind Glass-Bead 2017" belongs to the wider Negarestani archive where horror, commentary, interview, and conceptual experiment keep post-CCRU theory-fiction in public circulation.
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Definition · paragraph 10
Reza Negarestani – Glass Bead – 2017 6 mean that our knowledge of the future can never be certain either in the deductive sense or in the sense of the probable—something that any inductivist would accept—but rather that our contention regarding the possibility of having such knowledge is irrational, i.e. not reasonable in any sense. To put it more bluntly, there simply cannot be any (inductive) knowledge of the future to be deemed certain or uncertain, determinate or wholly indeterminate in any sense.
Definition · paragraph 7
Reza Negarestani – Glass Bead – 2017 4 drastically raising or lowering the degree of support already established for the inductive outcome. The significance of induction is that it permits the differentiation of laws from non-laws. This is precisely where the problem of induction surfaces.
History · paragraph 41
Reza Negarestani – Glass Bead – 2017 20 viciously circular, and its connection to reliability cannot be established. But with the addition of an inductive argument that specifies effectiveness, a potentially infinite series of arguments will be required.
History · paragraph 28
Reza Negarestani – Glass Bead – 2017 14 If projectable and non-projectable predicates are equally valid, then what kinds of constraints can we impose on a system of inductive reasoning that will exclude grue-type non-law-like generalizations?
History · paragraph 26
Reza Negarestani – Glass Bead – 2017 13 The generalizations ‘All emeralds are green’ and ‘All emeralds are grue’ are both confirmed by observations of green emeralds made before 2050. Before 2050, no grue emeralds can be observationally—i.e. inductively—distinguished from any green emeralds.
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Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.