VAuroch comments on The Power of Positivist Thinking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VAuroch 30 December 2013 07:21:39PM 0 points [-]

"One impulse from a vernal wood can teach you more of man, of moral evil, and of good than all the sages can," bluh? Is this some sort of pop culture reference? Depends on what vernal wood is: if it is something akin to the Akashic record granting omniscience, then it is true. If it is anything else, probably not.

It's a Wordsworth quote. Also "vernal wood" is like "vernal pool", where vernal means 'of or pertaining to Spring'. It is reducible and false.