You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

amcknight comments on On Saying the Obvious - Less Wrong Discussion

82 Post author: Grognor 02 February 2012 05:13AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (45)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: Oscar_Cunningham 02 February 2012 01:59:34PM *  2 points [-]

There's an excellent definition of how "obvious" should be used in mathematics: something is obvious if and only if "a proof immediately springs to mind".

Comment author: amcknight 02 February 2012 08:09:57PM 2 points [-]

No! How is this different than saying:
There's an excellent definition of how "obvious" should be used: something is obvious if and only if "an explanation immediately springs to mind".