CronoDAS comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong

77 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 06:16PM

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Comment author: CronoDAS 02 October 2012 11:05:07AM 3 points [-]

Is there a difference between "truth" and "accuracy"?

Comment author: Benquo 02 October 2012 12:39:49PM 4 points [-]

I could figure some cases where would find it natural to say that one proposition is more accurate then another, but not to say that it is more true. For example, saying that my home has 1000 ft.², as opposed to saying that has 978.25 ft.² Or saying that it is the morning, as opposed to saying that it is 8:30 AM.

Comment author: pleeppleep 02 October 2012 01:03:00PM 0 points [-]

In that context it would refer to narrowness, but it would refer to proximity to truth in a different context, so I think its one of those cases where one word is used twice in place of a second word. I don't think narrowness would be confused with truth, so I think my first definition is the more relevant.

Comment author: incariol 02 October 2012 03:01:56PM 1 point [-]

Perhaps this: "accuracy" is a quantitative measue when "truth" is only qualitative/categorical.