Jayson_Virissimo comments on Rationality quotes: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 02 May 2010 12:56:48AM 7 points [-]

Skeptic, n. One who doubts what he does not want to believe and believes what he does not want to doubt.

-L. A. Rollins, Lucifer's Lexicon

Comment author: mwengler 10 May 2010 09:29:05PM 1 point [-]

Vote this up! What could be more rational than to be skeptical about skepticism?

Comment author: steven0461 10 May 2010 09:32:11PM 4 points [-]

Being skeptical about skepticism about skepticism?

Comment author: [deleted] 02 May 2010 01:04:52AM 1 point [-]

I was disappointed to find that Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary didn't have such a term. I had thought it would be a similar definition, and an ironically close name, though searching again showed me that the Lexicon is based on the Dictionary.

Comment author: Psychohistorian 03 May 2010 05:01:43AM 4 points [-]

CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

That what you were thinking of?

Comment author: [deleted] 03 May 2010 01:38:48PM 0 points [-]

I was looking for skeptic specifically, but that's a close second.

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