orthonormal comments on Conversation Halters - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: orthonormal 21 February 2010 05:05:01AM 0 points [-]

So we agree it's not a conversation halter unless one person won't proceed past, 'my assumptions are self-evident!'.

I think you're missing the other kind of conversation halter here: the person might not even claim their assumptions are self-evident, but simply say that they're axioms and not subject to further analysis. This is the conversation halter RobinZ has been describing.