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7 Post author: Shalmanese 20 December 2009 10:09AM

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Comment author: wedrifid 20 December 2009 02:33:35PM 0 points [-]

Does more advanced wisdom look like bullshit than bullshit looks like advanced wisdom? I doubt it. Bullshit is selected for appearances.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 21 December 2009 04:22:21AM 1 point [-]

By the OP's definition of 'advanced wisdom', all advanced wisdom looks like bullshit, by definition.

There would be 3 broad sets that your discussions would fall in: Beliefs that you both mutually agree on, Beliefs that you are able to convince your past-self through reason and Beliefs which make the past-self regard your future-self as being actively stupid for holding. It's this third category which I'm going to term Advanced Wisdom.

Comment author: wedrifid 21 December 2009 05:34:46AM 2 points [-]

By the OP's definition of 'advanced wisdom', all advanced wisdom looks like bullshit, by definition.

That (re)definition makes Shalmanese's third law tautological rather than clearly false. That's fine, so long as no attempt is made to draw any conclusions about, well, actual advanced wisdom.

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