TimS comments on Proofs, Implications, and Models - Less Wrong

58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 October 2012 01:02PM

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Comment author: TimS 30 October 2012 01:18:43AM 1 point [-]

To be fair to the professor, conflating deductive and inductive reasoning is a basic error that's easy to pattern match.

Comment author: wedrifid 30 October 2012 02:24:03AM 3 points [-]

To be fair to the professor, conflating deductive and inductive reasoning is a basic error that's easy to pattern match.

To be fair to TsviBT it is pattern matching to the nearest possible stupid thing that is perhaps the most annoying logical rude tactics there is (whether employed deliberately or instinctively according to social drives).