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Will_Newsome comments on How do you notice when you're rationalizing? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 02 March 2012 10:08:09AM 2 points [-]

I personally rarely find that to be evidence of rationalization; instead it generally means that I know various disjunctive supporting arguments but am loth to present any individual one for fear of it being interpreted as my only or strongest argument.