ChristianKl comments on The Relevance of Advanced Vocabulary to Rationality - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 28 November 2013 07:57:28PM 1 point [-]

Also, I strongly suspect there are typical mind fallacy effects at work here.

Whether or not you need words is an empirical question. That question was investigated pretty thoroughly in linguistics.

I don't have to extrapolate from what I think about my own mind but can extrapolate from empirical research.