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palladias comments on Questions to ask theist philosophers? I will soon be speaking with several - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: palladias 27 April 2014 02:41:29AM 10 points [-]

"It can be hard to pick a martial arts school, because the teacher at almost any of them can beat you up as a novice, and you're too much of a beginner to figure out which of the teachers can beat up the other teachers. Someone who tries to explore theology seems to have a similar problem. What kinds of questions do you think are the equivalent of "cage matches" between different faith traditions? Do novices have a reasonable chance of reasoning to the correct tradition? If not, does that present problems for your soteriology?"

Comment author: beoShaffer 27 April 2014 03:59:36AM 1 point [-]

Your comment has quotation marks around it, but no attribution. It it meant to be a quote?

Comment author: gjm 27 April 2014 11:01:40AM 2 points [-]

I think it's meant to be a proposed question.

Comment author: palladias 27 April 2014 11:27:32AM 0 points [-]

Bingo