Vladimir_Nesov comments on Some Heuristics for Evaluating the Soundness of the Academic Mainstream in Unfamiliar Fields - Less Wrong

73 Post author: Vladimir_M 15 February 2011 09:17AM

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 24 February 2011 09:23:49PM 0 points [-]

I understand where the difficulty comes from, my complaint was with justification of the presence of the difficulty given in Joshua's comment. Maybe you're right, and the onus of justification was on the word "actively", even though it wasn't explained.