Descartes' and Turing's sufficiency condition conflates the detection heuristic with a constitutive criterion, treating what is epistemically useful as if it were metaphysically decisive.
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(as a practical benefit being mistaken for metaphysical reality)
Helpful for knowing or figuring something out—from 'epistemic,' which relates to knowledge. Something can be epistemically useful (helpful for learning) without being true in reality.
Metaphysically decisive(as genuine truth about reality itself)
Actually determining what is truly real or what something fundamentally is. 'Metaphysics' is about what really exists; 'decisive' means it settles the question. This is about deep reality, not just what we can test.
Turing
# Turing
Alan Turing was a British mathematician and scientist (1912-1954) who is considered the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. He invented the "Turing Machine," a theoretical device that helped define what computers could and couldn't do, and created the "Turing Test," a famous challenge to determine whether a machine can exhibit intelligent behavior indistinguishable from a human. His groundbreaking work during World War II on code-breaking, combined with his pioneering ideas about thinking machines, made him one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century.
sufficiency condition(Locke's theory of property as interpreted by Tully)
The requirement, associated with Locke's 'enough and as good' proviso, that an individual's appropriation of a good leaves enough and as good for others, such that no one is made worse off by the appropriation.