sheep1e comments on Privileging the Hypothesis - Less Wrong

57 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 September 2009 12:40AM

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Comment author: sheep1e 28 July 2010 07:47:52PM 2 points [-]

I think that "privileging the hypothesis" is an example of special pleading (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading) being applied to the selection of a hypothesis, as opposed to the evaluation of the hypothesis.