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Kaj_Sotala comments on Guarding Against the Postmodernist Failure Mode - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 09 July 2014 12:09:14PM 1 point [-]

What's the standard term?

Comment author: [deleted] 09 July 2014 12:20:12PM 2 points [-]

It's a form of the continuum fallacy.

Comment author: David_Gerard 09 July 2014 03:06:02PM -1 points [-]

gwern holds that it's actually false balance. Might be a mix. But one or both should have been named IMO.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 July 2014 04:09:05PM 0 points [-]

That's interesting. False balance doesn't seem to replace anything with a continuum. In particular I'm having trouble rephrasing their examples as fallacy of grey examples.

But, eh, I trust gwern.