DaFranker 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: DaFranker 04 October 2012 06:02:15PM 0 points [-]

It doesn't even have any referents to reality. It's not even a statement about whatever "reality" we live in, to the best of my knowledge. If it does mean five-leggedness of unicorn creatures with the implication of the existence of possible-existence of such creatures in reality, then it is false, but it's inconsistent with what we know of reality, since there's no way such a creature would exist.

...I think, anyway. Not quite sure about that second part.