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4 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 October 2012 05:09AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 31 October 2012 07:35:16PM *  6 points [-]

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.

Comment author: [deleted] 31 October 2012 07:53:24PM 4 points [-]

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.