Larks comments on You only need faith in two things - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 March 2013 11:45PM

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Comment author: Larks 11 March 2013 06:43:11PM 0 points [-]

My guess is that deduction, along with bayesian updating, are being considered part of our rules of inference, rather than axioms.

Comment author: sullyj3 31 July 2015 04:04:00PM 0 points [-]

Oh, like Achilles and the tortoise. Thanks, this comment clarified things a bit.