Vladimir_Nesov comments on Atheist or Agnostic? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 19 April 2009 01:52:39PM 0 points [-]

Yes, you are confused, but don't expect the territory to be blank where the confusion lies in your mind. Work on understanding of the question, or of where that question came from, until you come up with a problem that actually gets resolved, even if with a negative answer.

Comment author: whpearson 19 April 2009 02:43:09PM 0 points [-]

I wouldn't say I was confused, simply unresolved.

Why should all questions be resoluble?

Comment author: orthonormal 21 April 2009 01:12:45AM 0 points [-]

Generally, the policy of "presumed resolvable, though perhaps not with current methods" seems to have the best results in such cases.

Comment author: whpearson 22 April 2009 12:02:48AM 0 points [-]

Sorry didn't see this for a while.

For most factual questions this is true, I suspect we might come up against self-referential paradoxes in the discussions about how to gain knowledge about the first cause of our existence.