Nisan comments on Things philosophers have debated - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Nisan 31 October 2012 04:18:06PM 6 points [-]

Heh.

My own view is that this argument is as convincing as an argument for any philosophically interesting position, and so should be taken seriously. Trivialism should not be treated as a special case in this regard. Philosophers have committed to claims on the basis of a lot less.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 November 2012 02:23:08PM 0 points [-]

If you leave out the phrase "and so should be taken seriously", I'd agree with that.