Hariant comments on Rationality quotes: May 2010 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: ata 01 May 2010 05:48AM

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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.