Caledonian2 comments on Qualitatively Confused - Less Wrong

26 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2008 05:01PM

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Comment author: Caledonian2 15 March 2008 12:57:16PM 0 points [-]

Both are descriptive statements, but one is asserting a correspondence between a statement and the world outside your brain, while the other is describing a correspondence between the statement and what is in your brain.

Yes, but - and here's the important part - what's being described as "in my brain" is an asserted correspondence between a statement and the world. Given one, we can infer the other either necessarily or by making a minimal assumption of consistency.