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Jiro comments on Open Thread, May 11 - May 17, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jiro 12 May 2015 05:28:46PM 0 points [-]

Of course it's a misleading description, that's my point. RK said that OW's post was "Suppose P would be true? Then P would be true!" His reason for saying that, as far as I could tell, is that the conclusions of the hypothetical were logically implied by the hypothetical. I don't buy that.