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Jayson_Virissimo comments on Open thread, January 25- February 1 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 31 January 2014 03:47:25AM 1 point [-]

To a "regular person", I might say something like "a logical fallacy is a form of reasoning that seems good to many humans, but actually isn't very good".