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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 26 October 2012 02:06:55PM 2 points [-]

It's questionable whether the smoking lesion problem is a valid counterexample to EDT in the first place. It can be argued that the problem is underspecified, and it requires additional assumptions for EDT to determine an outcome:

I agree.

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