DSherron comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DSherron 04 August 2013 10:49:14PM 7 points [-]

While you can be definitively wrong, you cannot be definitely right.

Not true. Trivially, if A is definitively wrong, then ~A is definitively right. Popperian falsification is trumped by Bayes' Theorem.

Note: This means that you cannot be definitively wrong, not that you can be definitively right.