Psychohistorian comments on Rationality Quotes: July 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Psychohistorian 03 July 2010 09:09:43PM 2 points [-]

Actually, "No valid inference."

A man who has admitted in the wrong may or may not be thought much of by Abraham Lincoln is the only thing we can infer, and it's too indefinite to count as a useful deductive truth.