buybuydandavis comments on Signalling fallacies: Implication vs. Inference - Less Wrong

-7 Post author: hankx7787 14 November 2012 09:15PM

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 15 November 2012 01:48:46AM 3 points [-]

Y said "X is crappy".

This fact would, in general, cause me to update my beliefs about X and Y. Where's the fallacy in that?

Are you just trying to make the distinction between inferences about the statement's speaker the statement's referents?