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Juno_Watt 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: Juno_Watt 10 May 2013 02:55:57PM 0 points [-]

Have you noticed that, although you and Jack have completely opposite (minimal and maxima) ontologies, you both have the same motivation, of avoiding "philosophising". Well, I suppose "everything exists" and "nothing exists" both impose minimal cognitive burden -- if you believe some non -trivial subset exists, you have to put effort into populating it.

Comment author: shminux 11 May 2013 04:41:45AM 0 points [-]

I haven't noticed that Jack has a motivation of "avoiding philosophizing". And I don't say that "nothing exists", I just avoid the term as mostly vacuous, except in specific narrow cases, like math.