Sewing-Machine 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: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2012 05:26:28AM 5 points [-]

Koan answers here for:

What rule could restrict our beliefs to just propositions that can be meaningful, without excluding a priori anything that could in principle be true?

Comment author: [deleted] 03 October 2012 04:25:10AM 3 points [-]

What rule could restrict our beliefs to just propositions that can be meaningful, without excluding a priori anything that could in principle be true?

A variation on this question "what rule could restrict our beliefs to just propositions that can be decided, without excluding a priori anything true?" is known to hopeless in a strong sense.

Incidentally I think the phrase "in principle" isn't doing any work in your koan.