lucidian comments on A simple exercise in rationality: rephrase an objective statement as subjective and explore the caveats - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lucidian 19 April 2015 03:43:16AM 9 points [-]

I suspect you're aware of this already, but you are basically describing E-Prime.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 19 April 2015 02:24:30PM 2 points [-]

This goes deeper than just avoiding the form of to-be. Mainly by following up with "why". But also consider the Team X example.