Steve_Rayhawk comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Steve_Rayhawk 03 February 2010 03:05:33AM *  2 points [-]

Also: if mathematics in contact only with mathematics becomes "less mathematical" than mathematics in contact with praxis, then how can praxis in contact with mathematics become more practical than praxis out of contact with mathematics?

Comment author: gregconen 03 February 2010 05:13:25PM 2 points [-]

If you have no mathematical techniques, you don't know how to think about your empirical evidence.

If you have no empirical evidence, you have nothing to use your mathematical techniques on.

You need both.