RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes October 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 04 October 2012 08:59:02AM *  5 points [-]

The mind has its illusions as the sense of sight; and in the same manner as feeling corrects the latter, reflection and calculation correct the former.

Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace, "A Philosophical Essay On Probabilities", quoted here. (Hat tip.)