Nornagest comments on Hedonium's semantic problem - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 09 April 2015 11:50AM

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Comment author: Nornagest 15 April 2015 10:56:47PM 0 points [-]

Isn't that just the contention of "Yes, Virginia..."?

Comment author: dxu 15 April 2015 11:05:15PM *  0 points [-]

I'm not quite sure on what you mean by that. I looked up the phrase, and it returned an 1897 article in The New York Sun, but besides the obvious fact that both my comment and the article deal with the existence (or non-existence) of Santa Claus, I'm not seeing a huge connection here. Could you possibly expand?