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James_Miller comments on List of Fully General Counterarguments - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: Gunnar_Zarncke 18 July 2015 09:49PM

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Comment author: James_Miller 18 July 2015 09:54:41PM 6 points [-]

The iterated "but how do you know that" also works as a FGC, or gets your opponent to admit he is relying on an unjustified assumption.

Comment author: TylerJay 19 July 2015 10:46:32AM *  3 points [-]

This is a good one. More generally, it's sometimes called the "Why" Regress. Not just about how you know something, but about how something happened or came to be. It applies equally to science and religion.

Edit: "...know you know" => "...how you know"