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 26 April 2014 08:57:22PM 0 points [-]

Right, that's true. In the particular case of The Things They Carried, I'd trust O'Brien moderately well to depict what the Vietnam War was like, since he participated in it.