Esar comments on Mixed Reference: The Great Reductionist Project - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 December 2012 12:26AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 December 2012 03:33:34PM 0 points [-]

Presenting a trivial conclusion from nontrivial premises as a nontrivial conclusion seems suspicious

Not only suspicious, but impossible: if the premises are non-trivial, the conclusion is non-trivial.

In every argument, the conclusion follows straight away from the premises. If you accept the premises, and the argument is valid, then you must accept the conclusion. The conclusion does not need any further support.

Comment author: MugaSofer 26 December 2012 10:08:43PM -1 points [-]

Y'know, you're right. Trivial is not the right word at all.