Kindly comments on Rationality Quotes December 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kindly 03 December 2014 09:07:47PM 15 points [-]

I am reminded of:

"Arf arf arf! Not because arf arf! But exactly because arf NOT arf!" GK Chesterton's dog

@stevenkaas

In trying to find the above quote by wildcard searching on Google, I stumbled upon another quote of this nature by the dog's owner himself: "I want to love my neighbour not because he is I, but precisely because he is not I." There appears to be another one about science being bad not because it encourages doubt, but because it encourages credulity, but I'm unable to find the exact quote.

Comment author: frnzkfk 03 December 2014 10:51:19PM 3 points [-]

Who could have imagined that Zizek was so derivative! Oh wait...

Comment author: RichardKennaway 04 December 2014 12:33:10AM 5 points [-]

Zizek himself lampshades the method here.

Comment author: Leon 04 December 2014 10:57:17PM *  3 points [-]

As does Chesterton, less explicitly:

Mere light sophistry is the thing that I happen to despise most of all things, and it is perhaps a wholesome fact that this is the thing of which I am generally accused. I know nothing so contemptible as a mere paradox; a mere ingenious defence of the indefensible.

and at length.

I get the impression that he (thankfully!) eased off on that particular template as time went on.

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