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TheAncientGeek comments on [Stub] The problem with Chesterton's Fence - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 10 January 2016 01:24:49AM 0 points [-]

Maybe not, in the sense that most politically charged claims aren't falsifiable.

Comment author: Lumifer 10 January 2016 02:06:21AM 1 point [-]

most politically charged claims aren't falsifiable

Now that doesn't look true to me. What may be true is that many of them are not concerned with the truth of the claim, but that's not quite the same thing.