# please rename, sort out the meta data, and move to my learning folder for this text.
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- Session id: `31c23eaa-d4fc-4922-8405-fbe6527483ab`
- Last activity: `2026-05-07T09:31:59.746Z`
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### User
/Users/nickyoung/Downloads/s10670-025-01010-x.pdf please rename, sort out the meta data, and move to my learning folder for this text.
### Assistant
I have the metadata. Let me check the Learning folder for the existing naming convention and then move the file.
### Assistant
Naming convention is `Title by Author Year.pdf`. Moving with renamed metadata.
### Assistant
Done.
- Title: The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning and the Theory-Free Ideal
- Author: Mel Andrews (Tufts / Cincinnati / Carnegie Mellon)
- Journal: Erkenntnis (2025)
- DOI: 10.1007/s10670-025-01010-x
- Filed at: `Learning/The Immortal Science of ML - Machine Learning and the Theory-Free Ideal by Mel Andrews 2025.pdf`
The paper argues that ML methods are not epistemically distinct from other inductive tools — they cannot be "theory-free," and the ideal that they could be is itself epistemically corrosive. Looks adjacent to your AI-aesthetics / generating-philosophy concerns about what LLMs can and can't do as inferential machines.
*Andrews smaschera l'idea di un'induzione senza teoria: ogni inferenza, anche quella di una macchina, poggia su concetti già dati.*