glomerulus comments on Rationality Quotes January 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: glomerulus 20 January 2014 03:11:14AM 3 points [-]

Ambiguity-resolving trick: if phrases can be interpreted as parallel, they probably are.

Recognizing that "knows not how to know" parallels with "knows not also how to unknow," or more simply "how to know" || "how to unknow", makes the aphorism much easier to parse.