Dpar comments on Your Strength as a Rationalist - Less Wrong

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Comment author: WrongBot 09 August 2010 09:21:50PM 4 points [-]

The wiki should be a good starting point for answering this question. What is Evidence? may also be helpful.

Short version: rumor, hearsay, and speculation are evidence, albeit of a very weak variety.

Comment author: Dpar 09 August 2010 09:35:21PM 0 points [-]

Well that clarifies things quite a bit. I find this definition of evidence surprising, especially in this community, but very interesting. I'll have to sleep on it. Thank you for the references.