mszegedy comments on How Tim O'Brien gets around the logical fallacy of generalization from fictional evidence - Less Wrong

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Comment author: mszegedy 25 April 2014 01:49:49AM *  0 points [-]

He literally tells the same story over and over again, differently every time. He has several stories that he does this to. The book is a fictional autobiography; O'Brien was in the Vietnam War, and writes as though he were recollecting stories from the Vietnam War, but the stories are all made up. Here, I found an excerpt that illustrates the principle in a somewhat okay manner.

EDIT: Here, this is better (PDF warning).