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Jack comments on Which parts of philosophy are worth studying from a pragmatic perspective? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jack 02 October 2010 02:30:55AM 4 points [-]

People realize Bayesian epistemology was a philosophy long before Eliezer, right? It's a fairly large area of study in philosophy of science.

Comment author: Will_Newsome 02 October 2010 02:34:46AM 1 point [-]

Er, I think so. The kind of person who reads Less Wrong is probably the kind of person who takes care to search Wikipedia or the SEP for words like 'Bayesianism' and get a feel for the relevant literature.

Comment author: NihilCredo 04 October 2010 03:48:15AM 0 points [-]

One of my favourite aspects of LW is knowing that, even if I forget to linkify an unusual or obscure name or reference, I will not get some Mr. McLazy replying with "What is X? Never heard of it".

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