Mathematical Explanation in Computer Science.
This note scouts a broad but underexplored class of explanations found in contemporary computer science. These explanations, which I call limitative explanations, explain why certain problems cannot be solved computationally. Limitative explanations are philosophically rich, but have not received th...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 90; no. 5; pp. 1079 - 1089 |
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Dec2023
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