Caledonian2 comments on The Generalized Anti-Zombie Principle - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian2 06 April 2008 06:37:42PM -1 points [-]

there will always be issues where the agreed evidence is just not strong enough

Then no one arguing can justify their positions, and everyone is incorrect in their assertions.

In any argument there can be at most one correct side. There's no principle saying that any of the sides involved must be right - only that only one can be.

There's also no principle mandating that any of the sides must be wrong. Incoherent arguments aren't wrong. They would have to go up in ontological status to be wrong. It would take a great deal of work and some serious improvement for them to be wrong.

P-zombies aren't right. They aren't wrong. They are merely nonsense.