Eugine_Nier comments on "Irrationality in Argument" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 17 December 2010 07:08:32AM 7 points [-]

That's why a metaphor can remove inferential steps and be an excellent way of bringing us to our senses and making us reconsider a vast network of cached knowledge.

Unfortunately, metaphor can just as easily convince us of false thinks as of true ones.

Comment author: jmmcd 17 December 2010 02:40:13PM 0 points [-]

I think the idea is to use all the bias-avoiding techniques you can, while trying to find the truth; but to use metaphor and other rhetorical tricks, when trying to persuade others of the the truth.

Comment author: nerzhin 17 December 2010 03:35:25PM 2 points [-]

Overcome our own bias, promote the bias of others?

Comment author: jmmcd 18 December 2010 01:11:15AM 0 points [-]

If one believes the truth for (partly) wrong reasons, is one biased?

If one is led to reject an old bias by convincing rhetoric, is one biased?

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