prase comments on Betrand Russell's Ten Commandments - Less Wrong

3 Post author: quanticle 06 May 2012 07:52PM

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Comment author: prase 07 May 2012 07:18:19PM 1 point [-]

If you define "opinion" as something which is not obviously true then every opinon had once to be at least a bit eccentric by definition.

Comment author: Arran_Stirton 08 May 2012 12:32:01AM *  1 point [-]

every opinon had once to be at least a bit eccentric by definition.

I'm having trouble parsing that, could you re-phrase?

Also it's not so much about what I'm defining "opinion" to be, but rather about what the quote means when it says "opinion". If we're going to say that the quote is wrong, we should at least aim to attack what the quote is intended to mean, rather than what we can interpret it to mean.