Benquo comments on The Neglected Virtue of Scholarship - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benquo 09 January 2011 03:29:56PM 5 points [-]

The examples in the post were debate-specific, but I would suggest that the virtue of scholarship is more broadly applicable. Like many parts of rationality, the most important thing is not to use scholarship to win arguments, but to use scholarship to find the right thing to argue for, or more generally, to become correct.