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Brilliant and fun. Small bug when I go into the "room to the right/left", if I back out (via browser), the character will continue going in that direction without any button being pressed.

Curious to know what "Metatheoretical Structuralism" is, I am having trouble understanding after looking it up. If someone could ELI5 I would appreciate it. I get that it is philosophical analysis of empirical science, but would like to understand it on a deeper level.

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Thanks for the bug report. Are you using Firefox? I knew this happens in FF and couldn't find a fix for it.

As for structuralism, the general idea is that it is a way to axiomatize empirical theories using formal logic and set theory. More specifically it postualtes that scientific theories have a typical logical structure, that you should be able to find in theories of many different fields (from physics to biology to sociology). And people have "reconstructed" (i.e. axiomatized) theories from all those fields. So, in a sense, it is like a theory about theories and how they are structured. Hope this helps ;)

Very cool! The bug also happens to me, but I’m on mobile on iOS Safari.

I am indeed using FF.

Thank you for the explanation! That is fascinating, always amazed with the diverse knowledge hiding around YC.

Theory about the structure of theories?

Why is "math" not a better word for this?

Probably because it’s not math…

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