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Jack comments on What do professional philosophers believe, and why? - Less Wrong Discussion

31 Post author: RobbBB 01 May 2013 02:40PM

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Comment author: Jack 09 May 2013 11:37:22PM 0 points [-]

This straight-forwardly begs the question. I say "What it means to exist is to be quantified over in our best scientific theories". Your reply is basically "If you're wrong about the definition then you're wrong about the definition."

Comment author: Juno_Watt 10 May 2013 09:27:20AM 0 points [-]

Your claim was "If we are right about the definition, we are right about the definition".