Caledonian2 comments on Trust in Math - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 15 January 2008 08:11:51PM 2 points [-]

One of Heinlein's faults that he shared with certain individuals here is that he liked to treat all his conclusions as though they were as rigorously demonstrated - and easy to verify - as his mathematical arguments.

It's mostly a weakness in his earlier work - see Starship Troopers - and he had loosened up enough to acknowledge informalistic reasoning in later books.

I suspect we'd find the transition took place, as so many of his others did, in the middle of Stranger in a Strange Land.