Decius comments on Many Weak Arguments vs. One Relatively Strong Argument - Less Wrong

20 Post author: JonahSinick 04 June 2013 03:32AM

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Comment author: Decius 04 June 2013 09:07:13PM -1 points [-]

Better claim: "In the absence of a coherent strong argument, the consideration of many weak arguments is expected to tend toward accurate conclusions."

moderate evidence against D would appear similarly as "a weak argument against [z]" [given] "IFF (A & B & C & D & E) THEN Z"

Wrong. Moderate evidence against D is moderate evidence against (A & B & C & D & E).