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Vladimir_Nesov comments on Rational philosophies - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 12 February 2012 11:01:17PM *  0 points [-]

As I said, a heuristic, which assumes inaccuracy and possibility of detecting exceptions by other means. For the "most claims" variant, the relevant heuristic would be associated with Occam's razor.