Dolores1984 comments on Cleaning up the "Worst Argument" essay - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dolores1984 06 September 2012 03:50:26AM 3 points [-]

If he can unilaterally declare a worst argument, then so can I. I declare the Worst Argument In The World to be Guilt By Association: "If we can apply a word to something, we must judge it the same as we judge more prototypical instances of that word."

This part happens way too fast.