cousin_it comments on Formalizing informal logic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cousin_it 11 September 2009 01:08:15PM *  4 points [-]

In a perfect world, bushiness would indeed imply high reliability. Unfortunately in our world the different branches of the bush can have hidden dependencies, either accidental or maliciously inserted - they could even all be subtly different rewordings of one same argument - and the technique won't catch that. So ultimately I don't think we have invented a substitute for common sense just yet.