cupholder comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (1329)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: cupholder 24 March 2010 07:59:07PM -1 points [-]

Please either show me where I made such an implication by QUOTING me

I could be mistaken, but I think I already did.

Comment author: brazil84 24 March 2010 08:11:58PM 0 points [-]

Yes you are mistaken. If we both agree to X, it would make no sense for me to ask, in essence, why you believe in ~X.

Comment author: cupholder 24 March 2010 08:23:29PM -1 points [-]

I'm not asserting that you asked me if I believed there was no evidence of God (which is the ~X you have in mind, as far as I can tell). I'm asserting that you asked me whether I rejected evidence of God.

A second thing. It's plain to me that at this point this argument is capable of going around in circles forever (if it hasn't gone into a full-on death spiral already), and I'm not interested in engaging you on this point indefinitely. I'm not going to continue this subthread after this comment.

Comment author: brazil84 24 March 2010 09:25:21PM 1 point [-]

I'm not asserting that you asked me if I believed there was no evidence of God (which is the ~X you have in mind, as far as I can tell). I'm asserting that you asked me whether I rejected evidence of God.

But according to you, I implied that rejecting evidence of God excludes the possibility of acknowledging the existence of that evidence.

However I made no such implication.

and I'm not interested in engaging you on this point indefinitely. I'm not going to continue this subthread after this comment.

That's fine . . . I don't engage with people who strawman me.

Goodbye.