Jack comments on Conversation Halters - Less Wrong

38 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 20 February 2010 03:00PM

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Comment author: Jack 20 February 2010 11:28:33PM 0 points [-]

Agreement! Good for us. So then a question for the rest of the thread: is "appeal to inescapable assumptions" the same things as "appeal to self-evidence"? If so then it looks like we all agree but perhaps Eliezer didn't phrase the example well.