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

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Comment author: Nornagest 14 December 2011 01:11:15AM 1 point [-]

Idiomatically speaking, I think you can usually parse "can't be perfect" as a proxy for "should not aspire to the ideal, even if you accept that it can only be approached asymptotically".