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Comment author: roland 15 August 2012 08:31:19PM 1 point [-]

I agree. What I was thinking about lately is that we need practical procedures to guide our reasoning. For example we could argue all day long about whether someone should or shouldn't study in college. But is there a practical procedure that could give us or guide us towards a more objective answer?

Even on a very fundamental level I still think there are pitfalls. E.g. I think everyone agrees that as a Bayesian reasoner you should take all evidence into account, but in practice people will just discount evidence against their opinion.