hairyfigment comments on The Argument from Common Usage - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 February 2008 04:24PM

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Comment author: hairyfigment 22 March 2015 08:57:54AM -1 points [-]

It so happens that Eliezer offers a possible answer in this very sequence.

Of course, one or both parties may know this answer and choose a more political/rhetorical approach in the hope of changing someone's behavior, not their factual beliefs.