David_Gerard comments on Verbal Overshadowing and The Art of Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_Gerard 14 April 2011 05:57:03PM 5 points [-]

It occurs to me that verbal overshadowing of feelings may be some of what people are complaining of when they consider explaining to constitute explaining away. It's a mechanism by which the explanation does, in fact, overshadow the feelings.