Armok_GoB comments on Things philosophers have debated - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Armok_GoB 31 October 2012 07:23:30PM *  -1 points [-]

Yea. My personal guess would be that the people in question were never even exposed to a lot of hidden (correct) assumptions we have that makes it so obviously silly, like the nature of things like math, "statements" and "truth".

EDIT:: I'm apparently not all here today and sprouting bull**, sorry.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 October 2012 07:35:16PM *  6 points [-]

You mean that the graduate student of the philosophy of logic doesn't know about things like math and theories of truth? That seems unlikely to me.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 October 2012 07:53:24PM 4 points [-]

Adding to this, it seems more likely that they were exposed to critiques of those assumptions, and put more stock in those critiques than we do.