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Vaniver comments on Bayes Slays Goodman's Grue - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: potato 17 November 2011 10:45AM

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Comment author: Vaniver 17 November 2011 04:18:42AM 9 points [-]

But where can I find grue and bleen? If knowledge of them were deleted from my memory, would I reform those concepts?

If you deleted my knowledge of color, but left me my eyes, I could still distinguish between photons of 2.75 eV and photons of 2.3 eV. That's a difference you can find outside you and that persists.

Comment author: potato 17 November 2011 06:01:15AM 2 points [-]

right, thats the point, to solve the problem, you have to move into semantics.