Nick_Tarleton comments on The Conscious Sorites Paradox - Less Wrong

9 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 28 April 2008 02:58AM

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Comment author: Nick_Tarleton 29 April 2008 01:48:45PM 0 points [-]

A exists, definitely; we hypothesize that A is actually B, possibly; we have trouble specifying the exact relationship between B and A; so we conclude that A doesn't definitely exist after all?

This is a wonderful statement of the problem. I'll remember it.