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paper-machine comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, February 2015, chapter 112 - Less Wrong Discussion

4 Post author: Gondolinian 25 February 2015 09:00PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 25 February 2015 09:52:58PM *  3 points [-]

Native speaker here; I think it's acceptable. It gives a connotation along the lines of, "had it not been for the fact that he would die, he would have no other reason for doing X."

Comment author: jaime2000 26 February 2015 12:20:15AM 0 points [-]

Non-native speaker here; I agree with you. I knew what "insofar as" meant, and the statement parsed fine.