shokwave comments on Rationality Quotes: February 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 02 February 2011 03:29:10AM -2 points [-]

It's true that the question of God's existence is epistemologically fairly trivial and doesn't require its own category of justifications

It's really epistemologically difficult to find out what people mean by God in the first case; how then can it be epistemologically trivial to judge the merits of such a hypothesis?

Comment author: shokwave 02 February 2011 09:48:37AM 11 points [-]

Difficult to pin down within a range of trivial-to-judge positions.

Comment author: false_vacuum 03 February 2011 11:26:15PM 0 points [-]

With, possibly, vanishingly rare exceptions.