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

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Comment author: pedanterrific 13 December 2011 10:01:30PM 3 points [-]

But obviously my attempts to do this are not welcomed. You do not want to hear about knowledge that is not legitimized by your body of essays, idols, and peers, but that does not make it trivially true.

"Trivially true" does not mean 'false', or even 'irrelevant'. See What is a trivial truth?.