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.

hairyfigment comments on Stupid Questions Open Thread Round 2 - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: OpenThreadGuy 20 April 2012 07:38PM

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

Comments (208)

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

Comment author: hairyfigment 20 April 2012 11:17:12PM 5 points [-]

Philosophy sources, eg the online Stanford Encyclopedia thereof or some work on Aristotle. But I don't recommend you bother. "Formal" means a logical implication. "Final" suggests a purpose, which makes sense in the context of decision theory.