gwern comments on Rationality Quotes: October 2009 - Less Wrong

7 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 22 October 2009 04:06PM

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Comment author: gwern 31 October 2009 08:29:49PM 1 point [-]

There is a quote, though I cannot find it now, to the effect that 'It is an old parlor game among American philosophers to show that Peirce thought of something first.'

Comment author: thomblake 02 March 2010 03:46:03PM 1 point [-]

Peirce thought of something first

But he did!

Comment author: gwern 02 March 2010 04:26:40PM 1 point [-]

It's funny because it's partly true - he did an impressive amount, and stuff which has yet to be dug out of his scores of volumes - but some Peirce fans take it too far (I had one professor who the quote applied well to).