Paul_Crowley2 comments on Absolute Authority - Less Wrong

44 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 January 2008 03:33AM

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Comment author: Paul_Crowley2 08 January 2008 09:00:31AM 3 points [-]

Practically all words (eg "dead") actually cut across a continuum; maybe we should reclaim the word "certainty". We are certain that evolution is how life got to be what it is, because the level of doubt is so low you can pretty much forget about it. Any other meaning you could assign to the word "certain" makes it useless because everything falls on one side.