Benja comments on Things philosophers have debated - Less Wrong

4 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 October 2012 05:09AM

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Comment author: Benja 31 October 2012 06:13:30AM *  8 points [-]

Pfft, I don't see what's so funny about the end. If it had been , alright, that would have been somewhat ironic at least, but ? Nobody was even arguing against that.

Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 31 October 2012 10:23:37AM 6 points [-]

I saw "You can help Wikipedia by expanding it." as the amusing ending...

Comment author: Kingoftheinternet 31 October 2012 04:45:43PM 0 points [-]

Trivialists are!

Comment author: Maelin 01 November 2012 02:35:21AM 4 points [-]

But they weren't. Trivialists certainly do assert that is true, and so is

Comment author: Kingoftheinternet 01 November 2012 03:08:44PM 3 points [-]

A trivialist would insist that "Trivialists argue ) is false" is true. Believing that you're arguing something isn't quite the same as arguing something, but I wanted to point out that under trivialism, trivialists think they're arguing for and against all propositions simultaneously.