CCC comments on Rationality Quotes Thread September 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 30 September 2015 09:47:21AM 1 point [-]

As a religious person myself, I have to say that's the one part of the Sequences that seems to me to be poorly fitted.

Is this an instance of the template "As someone who believes X, I have to say that where this book argues against X is its weakest part."?

Comment author: CCC 05 October 2015 08:08:16AM 1 point [-]

Yes, it probably is :)

However, I do think that I can provide an objective argument for it being poorly fitted. That argument is as follows; it is an important part of the Sequences that one should never write the conclusion to an argument before writing down the argument that leads to that conclusion (the last line on the page should not be written first).

Yet, in the particular case of atheism, we are shown only the last line, and not the supporting argument(s). Hence, poorly fitted to the Sequences as a whole.