Persol comments on Avoiding Your Belief's Real Weak Points - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Persol 09 April 2015 08:52:27PM 0 points [-]

I'd never seen the term Bulverism, but I don't think what you are doing would classify. You aren't saying A is false because Okeymaker likes B, you're saying the extraordinary claims with lack of extraordinary evidence doesn't provide much prove A.

And that lack of good evidence does not seems not to matter... which makes me wonder how a discussion can continue. Questioning the motives of the discussion is goal clarification, without which there is no discussion.