philosophy-of-history

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The cosine-0.84 pairing of Brooks's 1986 Dreyfus-rebuttal memo and Godfrey's pre-1939 'Value of History' lecture is an embedding false friend — no documented contact, and one side's content is unread

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-30 · bipartite-bridge, embedding-false-friend, rodney-brooks, hubert-dreyfus, john-godfrey
The Bjork and Dreyfus misattributions are the same move — an argument from silence — and McGrew's Bayesian grading tells the two apart

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · argument-from-silence, historiography, philosophy-of-history, negative-evidence, methodology
McGrew (2013) decomposes the argument from silence into a product of three probabilities — would the author notice, record, and would the record survive — so the inference is only as strong as its weakest term

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · argument-from-silence, historiography, philosophy-of-history, negative-evidence, bayesian