Vladimir_Nesov comments on Sequence Exercise: first 3 posts from "A Human's Guide to Words" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 17 April 2011 07:49:27PM * 7 points [-]

People in the time of Aristotle believed things were logically 100% certain to have all the properties that were part of their definition.

Surely not all people in the time of Aristotle believed that?

Comment author: orthonormal 18 April 2011 04:14:04PM * 6 points [-]

Let me amend it:

Aristotle and his disciples believed that things were logically 100% certain to have all the properties that were part of their definition.

From which we can of course conclude, by definition, that every disciple of Aristotle believed this proposition.