27chaos comments on The Hostile Arguer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: 27chaos 27 November 2014 08:56:59PM 0 points [-]

Just a heuristic, remember. I agree there are legitimate purposes for problem stating without problem solving, but problem solving almost always needs to be at least the implicit goal of an argument or it will go nowhere.