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30 notes carry this tag — 14 claims, 4 observations, 4 questions, 8 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• Did Hubert Dreyfus actually cite Michael Polanyi's tacit-knowledge epistemology as an influence on his AI critique, or is that only a Wikipedia editorial gloss?
  capture promoted 2026-09-10 · michael-polanyi, hubert-dreyfus, tacit-knowledge, ai-critique, philosophy-of-ai
• Dreyfus's 1972 What Computers Can't Do directly names, quotes, and cites Michael Polanyi — alongside Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty — as a source for its embodied/tacit-skill argument
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · michael-polanyi, hubert-dreyfus, tacit-knowledge, ai-critique, philosophy-of-ai
• In the same 1972 passage, Dreyfus's engagement with Polanyi is critical, not endorsement — he argues Polanyi's own account of rule-following undermines Polanyi's point
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · michael-polanyi, hubert-dreyfus, tacit-knowledge, ai-critique, philosophy-of-ai
• Polanyi Society scholars reviewing Dreyfus and Taylor's 2015 Retrieving Realism find Polanyi's influence nearly absent, complicating any claim of a durable career-long Polanyi debt
  claim seedling Tier 2 2026-09-10 · michael-polanyi, hubert-dreyfus, charles-taylor, tacit-knowledge, ai-critique
• Did Hubert Dreyfus actually cite Michael Polanyi's tacit-knowledge epistemology as an influence on his AI critique, or is that only a Wikipedia editorial gloss?
  question answered 2026-09-09 · michael-polanyi, dreyfus, tacit-knowledge, ai-critique, philosophy-of-ai
• What genuinely connects claim-brooks-1991-does-not-cite-dreyfus and claim-david-brachet-2011-citing-papers-contain-zero-ml-work: both are the vault's argument-from-silence method testing whether a cross-field name-echo hides real lineage — not the same mechanism, but the same higher-order pattern the vault already calls the jingle fallacy
  capture promoted 2026-08-15 · argument-from-silence, negative-citation, jingle-fallacy, brooks, dreyfus
• What genuinely connects claim-brooks-1991-does-not-cite-dreyfus and claim-kodosky-hopl-reference-list-omits-dennis-citation-unverified-mechanism: not subject matter but the vault's own named method, applied at opposite evidentiary extremes
  capture promoted 2026-08-15 · argument-from-silence, negative-citation, brooks, dreyfus, kodosky
• The Brooks/Dreyfus and Kodosky/Dennis argument-from-silence checks share the same method — testing an assumed lineage against the founding theorist a later practitioner is measured against — but sit at opposite ends of the evidentiary-strength range the vault's own McGrew-based framework grades
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · argument-from-silence, negative-citation, brooks, dreyfus, kodosky
• Brooks's and Dreyfus's identically-titled 'Intelligence without representation' papers are an untagged jingle-fallacy instance, alongside the vault's other named one (organizational vs. catastrophic forgetting)
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · jingle-fallacy, argument-from-silence, negative-citation, brooks, dreyfus
• Dreyfus's 1988 essay and Olazaran's 1993 SRI interviews converge on the same verdict — connectionism's mid-1960s eclipse was social closure, not scientific refutation — while naming different social mechanisms
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, sociology-of-science
• Minsky's own 'the perceptron project was really dead' testimony is a documented instance of the 'retrospective illusion' Dreyfus's 1988 paper warns the victors will produce
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-08-15 · dreyfus, minsky, connectionism, perceptrons, sociology-of-science
• What genuinely connects Dreyfus & Dreyfus's 1988 vindication claim and SRI's ARPA-funding retooling: independent evidence for the same 'never refuted, socially displaced' verdict
  capture promoted 2026-08-13 · dreyfus, connectionism, sri, ai-winter, sociology-of-science
• Does Brooks's Flesh and Machines (2002), p.168, actually contain the Dreyfus-credit wording Dreyfus's 2007 essay quotes, or is that Dreyfus's own gloss?
  capture promoted 2026-07-16 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, embodied-cognition
• Brooks's 1986 predecessor memo to "Intelligence Without Representation" cites Dreyfus twice by name and frames its entire argument as a rebuttal to him
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
• Per Dreyfus's own 2007 quotation of it, Brooks's 2002 book Flesh and Machines credits Dreyfus with being right about body-world coupling
  claim seedling Tier 1 for 'Dreyfus's 2007 essay contains this quotation'; the inner quote's exact wording against Brooks's own book is [unverified-quote] 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
• Outside the two same-titled papers, Brooks and Dreyfus have a documented, decades-long engagement -- but it runs toward rebuttal and qualification, not toward Brooks building subsumption on Dreyfus
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
• Brooks's own account of A.I. Memo 899's peer review shows the Dreyfus citation was dropped after a reviewer's criticism, en route to the 1991 paper that omits Dreyfus entirely
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
• Jordanous's 2020 historical review frames Dreyfus as a "precursor" to Brooks by comparing conclusions, not by citing any documented exchange between them
  claim seedling Tier 2 -- named academic, own peer-reviewed venue, judgment-of-influence read as her own historiographical framing rather than a report of a documented exchange 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
• Does Brooks's Flesh and Machines (2002), p.168, actually contain the Dreyfus-credit wording Dreyfus's 2007 essay quotes, or is that Dreyfus's own gloss?
  question open 2026-07-15 · brooks, dreyfus, embodied-cognition, philosophy-of-ai, primary-source
• Does any secondary source document an acknowledged Brooks–Dreyfus link, or does the "lineage" live entirely in later commentators reading the two same-titled papers side by side?
  capture promoted 2026-07-13 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
• Does Rodney Brooks's 1991 "Intelligence Without Representation" actually build on Dreyfus's anti-representation critique, and how explicitly?
  capture promoted 2026-07-12 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
• In §7.5 "It isn't German philosophy," Brooks pre-empts and rejects the Heideggerian reading of subsumption, attributing his approach to "purely engineering considerations"
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · brooks, dreyfus, heidegger, subsumption, robotics
• Brooks's 1991 "Intelligence Without Representation" does not cite Dreyfus anywhere in its text or 15-entry reference list
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
• On the primary-text evidence, the "Brooks builds on Dreyfus" lineage is a convergence in title and theme, not a documented citation or acknowledged influence in either direction
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
• Dreyfus's own same-titled 2002 "Intelligence Without Representation" is built on Merleau-Ponty and Freeman and never mentions Brooks, robotics, or the subsumption architecture
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · dreyfus, brooks, merleau-ponty, phenomenology, anti-representation
• Does any secondary source document an *acknowledged* Brooks–Dreyfus link, or does the "lineage" live entirely in later commentators reading the two same-titled papers side by side?
  question answered 2026-07-12 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation
• Dreyfus's own 1988 account resolves the 'double role': his critique targeted symbolic AI specifically, and he framed connectionism as vindicating his phenomenology, not as its target
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-09 · dreyfus, connectionism, phenomenology, backpropagation, perceptrons
• Dreyfus & Dreyfus's 1988 Daedalus paper frames Rosenblatt's connectionism — not symbolic AI — as the program their phenomenological critique vindicated
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · dreyfus, connectionism, phenomenology, perceptrons, history-of-ml
• Dreyfus's critique targeted Newell & Simon's physical symbol system hypothesis — a rationalist lineage (Descartes, Leibniz, Wittgenstein's Tractatus) the Dreyfuses separated from the Hebb–Rosenblatt neural-net line
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · dreyfus, connectionism, phenomenology, symbolic-ai, philosophy-of-ai
• Does Rodney Brooks's 1991 "Intelligence Without Representation" actually build on Dreyfus's anti-representation critique, and how explicitly?
  question answered 2026-07-09 · brooks, dreyfus, subsumption, robotics, anti-representation