dlthomas comments on How to Not Lose an Argument - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dlthomas 13 December 2011 05:02:24PM *  2 points [-]

I never made any claim about all knowledge.

You wrote:

Religion is the original norm for producing knowledge[.]

I specifically was objecting to "the" and "original". Religion has never been the only norm for producing knowledge - observation has been prevalent for large classes of knowledge where we don't even think of applying religion (or formalized science, for that matter). I would also surmise that observation came first.