alex_zag_al 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: alex_zag_al 05 October 2012 02:44:34PM *  1 point [-]

All the propositions must be logical consequences of a theory that predicts observation, once you've removed everything you can from the theory without changing its predictions, and without adding anything.