cupholder comments on Open Thread: May 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong

3 Post author: Kevin 20 May 2010 07:30PM

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Comment author: cupholder 22 May 2010 04:00:25PM 0 points [-]

Good point. I guess physicists don't spend much time arguing what a 'real electron' is, but once you start talking about abstract ideas...

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 22 May 2010 09:15:10PM 0 points [-]

Considerable efforts have been made here to have a stable meaning for rationality. I think it's worked.

Comment author: cupholder 22 May 2010 10:40:56PM 0 points [-]

It's a stable meaning...so maybe that just forestalls the argument until Less Wrongian rationalists meet other rationalists!