gwern comments on Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Will_Newsome 04 June 2010 04:08PM

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Comment author: gwern 06 June 2010 09:29:48PM 1 point [-]

As one of the rationalist quote threads said,

"To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it."

Comment author: RobinZ 07 June 2010 06:58:50PM 0 points [-]

Which one? I can't find it, now.

Comment author: gwern 07 June 2010 09:13:58PM 0 points [-]

Hm, you know what? I think I might've gotten that Novalis quote just from browsing Wikiquotes. Although it certainly does seem like something I would've picked up from the quote threads.