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ChristianKl comments on Consequences of the Non-Existence of Perfect Theoretical Rationality - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ChristianKl 10 January 2016 01:35:24PM 0 points [-]

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 knowledge if 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.