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DaFranker comments on Falsifiable and non-Falsifiable Ideas - Less Wrong Discussion

-1 Post author: shaih 19 February 2013 02:24AM

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Comment author: DaFranker 19 February 2013 06:05:05PM 0 points [-]

Ah, thanks, all good points. Guess I was lumping together the whole unfalsifiability + meaninglessness cluster/region.

Likewise, when I thought "the opposite of a meaningless belief", it turns out I was really thinking "the opposite of the implied assumption that this belief is meaningful", which is obviously true if the belief is known to be meaningless... (because IME that's what arguments usually end up being about)