loqi comments on Marketing rationalism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JulianMorrison 12 April 2009 10:10:10PM 0 points [-]

They cheat. Persuasion per se is not involved.

Comment author: loqi 12 April 2009 10:31:19PM 1 point [-]

Is it cheating to suggest to a theist that the tools of rational thought can help them more fully understand God?

Comment author: JulianMorrison 12 April 2009 10:34:35PM * 0 points [-]

It would be a truth in the denotation and a dirty trick in the connotation, but it isn't what I meant by "cheating".

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