Pablo_Stafforini comments on Useful Concepts Repository - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 25 May 2014 09:19:15PM *  1 point [-]

I'm not trying to be dense, but where does the article claim that "twofers" are fallacies? Can you quote the relevant passage?

EDIT: FWIW, I asked Vipul and he denies that the article makes such a claim. He also notes that the argument would be fallacious if its proponent argued that both of the empirical facts obtain (rather than arguing that one of the two must obtain).

Comment author: [deleted] 26 May 2014 05:43:01PM 1 point [-]

It doesn't say that explicitly, but he doesn't sound very convinced that the argument is valid either; but hey, word of God.