thomblake comments on Striving to Accept - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 09 March 2009 11:29PM

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Comment author: thomblake 10 March 2009 09:22:23PM 1 point [-]

That's actually a distinction made by the Chinese philosopher Ch'eng I - between mere knowledge and a deeper sort - knowing that leaving town at night is dangerous versus having been mauled by a tiger. Of course, he regarded the latter as more properly called 'knowledge'. I think I'm persuaded that belief and emotion are more closely linked than you suggest.