komponisto comments on Personal examples of semantic stopsigns - Less Wrong

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Comment author: komponisto 06 December 2013 04:10:40AM 12 points [-]

"There's no accounting for taste" is one that is often used to avoid analysis of art.

Comment author: ShardPhoenix 06 December 2013 08:57:24AM 6 points [-]

True, but it's probably worth it most of the time to avoid unnecessary conflict.

Comment author: komponisto 06 December 2013 03:34:29PM 10 points [-]

That is presumably the purpose of most of these "stopsigns", and indeed many other classic irrationalities (e.g. "non-overlapping magisteria").