Caledonian3 comments on Fundamental Doubts - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Caledonian3 12 July 2008 11:58:10PM 0 points [-]

Such a consensus would seem to suggest that there are many reasons for affirming its truth, and many different ways it can be interpreted which are still true.

That means the sentence is ambiguous and probably meaningless.

Useful claims have an obvious, specific meanings and can potentially be shown to be wrong easily. Nonsense can often be seen for nonsense, but meaninglessness is harder to spot.