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hyporational comments on The Relation Projection Fallacy and the purpose of life - Less Wrong Discussion

67 Post author: Academian 28 December 2012 04:14AM

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Comment author: hyporational 30 December 2012 05:01:15AM *  0 points [-]

Nobody is calling anyone an idiot here, brilliant people can be confused too.

I think it's a feature of the brain to confuse new language with the originally intended concepts. We wouldn't have most of philosophy without this feature.