# Today I want to be working on the Generating Philosophy project.
## Retrieval Notes
- Session id: `db590047-b8f1-42ee-ba49-a21be0db13f4`
- Last activity: `2026-01-29T10:27:58.423Z`
## My Notes
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## Conversation
### User
Today I want to be working on the Generating Philosophy project.
### Assistant
**Skill Evaluation:**
1. **smart-note** - NO - Not creating a note
2. **google-tasks-sync** - NO - Not asking about tasks
3. **calendar-query** - NO - Not asking about calendar
4. **gmail-search** - NO - Not asking about email
5. **semantic-search** - NO (for now) - May use later for research
6. **research-query** - NO (for now) - May use later
7. **paper-support** - MAYBE - Will use if we need to find supporting notes
8. **Technical reference** - NO - Not asking about system architecture
9. **Personal context** - YES - Should check research profile for project context
10. **Error patterns** - NO - Not working with Substack
Let me load the project context and recent session history:
### Assistant
Good morning! I've loaded the Generating Philosophy project context. Here's where we stand:
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## Project Status
**Core thesis:** The *dialectical saturation thesis* — LLMs have internalized philosophical "rules of the game" through training on argumentative corpora. Walton's *Argumentation Schemes* (2008) provides the formal backbone: schemes as locution/commitment/dialogue rules, critical questions as stress tests.
**Three versions** (increasing ambition):
1. **Script Competence** — safest, but is it interesting?
2. **Latent-Game Inference** — bottleneck is *which game*, not lack of rules
3. **Salience-Not-Frequency** — boldest, but what's the evidence?
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## Yesterday's Work
Big day — created 16 notes extracted from the [[chat with ChatGPT about Floridi, LLM reasoning, Move 37|Floridi chat]], including the core extracted notes now listed in your session file: [[Notes/Dialectical saturation thesis]], [[Notes/Argument schemas formalize dialectical rules]], [[Notes/Philosophy as self-grounding domain]], and more.
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## Open Questions (from session file)
1. **Which version of the saturation thesis to lead with?**
2. **What "remainder" falls outside scheme-governed reasoning?** (Long-horizon theory-building, literature-sensitive moves?)
3. **Review the Substack draft** — substantial but tone needs work
4. **Is "philosophy is self-grounding" the right framing** or too defensive?
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## Today's Scratch Pad Threads
Your note has these queued:
- Truth-tracking vs statistical imitation (Floridi et al.)
- What would a "philosophical value function" look like?
- Move 37 as existence proof: tail novelty via search + value
- CEV blueprint: Claim–Evidence–Verification training
- Discovery vs justification in LLM reasoning
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**How would you like to proceed?** Options:
- **Dive into a specific question** from the open questions list
- **Review the Substack draft** and work on tone
- **Work through one of the scratch pad threads** in detail
- **Something else** — there's a lot of rich material here
*Qual è il filo che ti attira di più stamattina?*