VoiceOfRa comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: VoiceOfRa 01 October 2015 03:46:45AM 1 point [-]

Of course either of those would be a strange and unusual happening -- but stranger and more unusual than a completely amputated leg miraculously growing back?

This is circular reasoning. You can argue that your theory makes it likely that the miracle didn't happen, but then you can't use it as evidence for your theory.

Comment author: gjm 01 October 2015 12:24:46PM 3 points [-]

It's not circular reasoning; even without deciding between naturalism and the various candidate supernaturalisms we know from straightforward observation that major miracles are extremely rare and hoaxes are not so rare.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 02 October 2015 01:15:51AM 0 points [-]

Depending on the scale of the hoax.