Dec. 1st, 2017

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What's the probability that Kushner will get a jail term?
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... usually the products of technology are not formulated in language, and they do not have truth values; the tools have a specific purpose of use; the use of tools opens new possibilities for human action.

Instead of truth and information, the technological artefacts should be evaluated by the value of the new possibilities that they open.

--- Ilkka Niiniluoto. Chapter 6. M. Franssen et al. (eds.), Philosophy of Technology after the Empirical Turn, Philosophy of Engineering and Technology,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33717-3_4


This sounds plausible but I can probably build a topos that maps an artefact to a design.

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