Strange7 comments on Absolute denial for atheists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 21 April 2012 03:50:25AM 2 points [-]

Honesty is correlation with the speaker's understanding of the facts; truth is correlation with the actual facts. A person can be speaking honestly but falsely, or truly but dishonestly, if their understanding is in some way less than perfectly correlated with the facts. What's so fnordish about that?