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

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Comment author: witzvo 15 July 2012 03:48:14AM *  1 point [-]

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.