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Creutzer comments on What are your contrarian views? - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Metus 15 September 2014 09:17AM

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Comment author: Creutzer 15 September 2014 02:06:23PM 2 points [-]

How is that a contrarian statement? Obviously natural language is heavily context-dependent. So what exactly do you mean when you say that?

Comment author: ChristianKl 15 September 2014 02:34:23PM 1 point [-]

I'm not saying something just focused on natural language. I think it's true for any statements.

If you look at http://lesswrong.com/lw/eqn/the_useful_idea_of_truth/ there's no mention of context and how a statement can be true in context A but false in context B.