atucker comments on The Truth about Scotsmen, or: Dissolving Fallacies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: atucker 06 December 2010 01:23:19AM 4 points [-]

It seems like pointing out fallacies isn't going to help at all if the person is only making up reasons to support whatever belief they already have in the conversation. Then they just pick a new reason.

The hard part is convincing them that they're justifying a belief and not mentioning the actual reasons why they have it, and that abandoning said belief is totally okay.