Eugine_Nier comments on Rational philosophies - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 12 February 2012 10:52:01PM 1 point [-]

It does mean that we should give up on most claims though.

Only if we determine them to be false.

(I wouldn't call most claims toxic, in the sense of promoting anti-epistemic habits, which is something more characteristic of philosophy specifically.)

I meant toxic in the sense of promoting destructive behavior.

Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 February 2012 11:01:17PM *  0 points [-]

As I said, a heuristic, which assumes inaccuracy and possibility of detecting exceptions by other means. For the "most claims" variant, the relevant heuristic would be associated with Occam's razor.

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