= 27d567bc2d48d9f40e9ccc20ea370b15)
Esar comments on Things philosophers have debated - Less Wrong Discussion
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
= 783df68a0f980790206b9ea87794c5b6)
Loading…= b715d02e85f7b3b4ae65ca3d3e450868)
Subscribe to RSS Feed
Powered by Reddit
= f037147d6e6c911a85753b9abdedda8d)
You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.
Comments (76)
It's probably not a good idea to laugh at people until you've at least heard their arguments. It is at the very least very bad signaling for an intellectual community to dismiss a small body of work because a sentence on Wikipedia (source unknown) makes it sound silly.
Remember that LW sounds pretty silly on Rational Wiki.
I think Wikipedia's Trivialism page already contains a comprehensive list of its supporting arguments.
Here is the abstract for the dissertation linked on Wikipedia. It argues that it is impossible to reject trivialism, as there are no alternatives to trivialism. It furthermore argues that common refutations of trivialism are incorrect for various reasons.
I'm not sure any of that refutes what you just said.
The paper is offered freely on the page.
Yea. My personal guess would be that the people in question were never even exposed to a lot of hidden (correct) assumptions we have that makes it so obviously silly, like the nature of things like math, "statements" and "truth".
EDIT:: I'm apparently not all here today and sprouting bull**, sorry.
You mean that the graduate student of the philosophy of logic doesn't know about things like math and theories of truth? That seems unlikely to me.
Adding to this, it seems more likely that they were exposed to critiques of those assumptions, and put more stock in those critiques than we do.