New paper with @danieldrucker.bsky.social! We had language models play The Counterexample Game, a philosopher's pastime where one person proposes a conceptual analysis , another pokes holes in it, and the first one tries to repair it. What happens over long iterated chains? arxiv.org/abs/2605.03936
Conceptual analysis -- proposing definitions and refining them through counterexamples -- is central to philosophical methodology. We study whether language models can perform this task through iterat...