casebash comments on Consequences of the Non-Existence of Perfect Theoretical Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion
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In order to prove that it is a problem, you have to find a real world situation that I've called incorrectly due to my decision to start reasoning from a theoretical model.
In general that's hard without knowing many real world situations that you have judged. But there's a recent example. The fact that different people won't come up with different definitions of
knowledgeif you ask them would be one recent example of concentrating too much on a definition and too little on actually engaging with what different people think.