LG comments on Cultish Countercultishness - Less Wrong

31 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 December 2007 12:53AM

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Comment author: LG 30 December 2007 01:20:47AM 1 point [-]

You should ask those people what a cult is. They won't be able to answer, and they may just realize that their question was nonsense to begin with.

Comment author: David_Gerard 10 January 2011 03:30:26PM 10 points [-]

Not being able to define a term to someone else's satisfaction on the spot doesn't mean you're talking about nothing rather than something. (It really helps to be able to, of course, but there's a reason it's not a convincing argument in practice.)