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

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Comment author: David_Gerard 25 June 2014 12:55:15PM *  1 point [-]

I've sometimes found it productive to explicitly add "the hypothesis that hasn't occurred to me" to the list. To remind me there is (at least) one.