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Dmytry comments on How do you notice when you're rationalizing? - Less Wrong Discussion
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I generally treat the votes as a mix of indication of clarity and of how much people like/dislike the notion.
Didn't expect any negatives on this post though; then I assumed something wasn't clear and added the edit. I still think that my point is entirely valid though. Good logic does not allow you to make a fallacious argument even if you want to, and bad logic often leads you to wrong conclusions even when you are genuinely interested in knowing the answer; furthermore the rationalization process doesn't restrict itself to assertions that are false.
Perhaps the concern is that the reduction to a logical question, i.e. to the set of premises and axioms, was the faulty part? After all a valid argument from false premises doesn't help anyone, but I'm sure you know that.