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faul_sname comments on Is Omega Impossible? Can we even ask? - Less Wrong Discussion

-8 Post author: mwengler 24 October 2012 02:47PM

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Comment author: faul_sname 24 October 2012 03:34:02PM *  3 points [-]

What if were set some problem where we are told to assume that

2+2 = 5
1+1 = 2
1+1+1+1+1 = 5

3rd one looks fine to me. :)

Edit: Whoosh. Yes, that was the sound of this going right over my head.

Comment author: mwengler 24 October 2012 03:45:06PM 1 point [-]

I'm surprised you don't like the 2nd one :)

The point being one false statement declared as true is enough to render logical derivations unrelliable no matter how many true statements you include with it.

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