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ChristianKl comments on How do you notice when you are ignorant of necessary alternative hypotheses? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 25 June 2014 05:30:14AM 2 points [-]

Rejecting hypothesis can only bring you to a state where you don't know what's going on. It's not constructive in a way where it bring you to the conclusion that one of the alternatives is true.

It would probably make sense to say: I don't know over a wider array of questions.