toonalfrink comments on The Useful Idea of Truth - Less Wrong

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Comment author: toonalfrink 26 May 2016 08:23:21PM 0 points [-]

I suspect that, if we are born, we already have a first model of physics, a few built-in axioms. As we grow older, we acquire beliefs that are only recursive applications and elaborations of these axioms.

I would say that, if a belief can be reduced to this lowest level of abstraction, it is a meaningful belief.