pangloss comments on Rationality Quotes - April 2009 - Less Wrong

11 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 April 2009 01:26AM

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Comment author: pangloss 21 April 2009 02:26:37PM 1 point [-]

Oh, that's a good point. I was assuming Aristotle was commending people who could hear it without coming to believe it, but it could easily be that he is commending people who diminish their belief rapidly, and acquire a state of mere apprehension.