Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Belief in Belief - Less Wrong

66 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 July 2007 05:49PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 07 February 2010 08:34:56PM 7 points [-]

Interactions between the magisteria are contradictions for you, not necessarily to a dualist who believes it all works out, somehow.

Contradictions are contradictions. If, in general, the magisteria don't interact, but in some specific case, they do interact, that's a contradiction. It's a model that doesn't meet the axioms. That is a matter of logic. You can say "The dualist asserts that no interaction is taking place", but you can't say, "for the dualist, that is not a contradiction".