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entirelyuseless comments on Dissolving Deep Questions: A Decline in Contemporary Controversy - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: Bound_up 08 April 2016 12:03AM

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Comment author: entirelyuseless 08 April 2016 06:18:51PM 4 points [-]

Arguing about which words to use means disagreeing about which policies of word use are good and bad. That is a disagreement about what we should do and what will have good consequences. That is a real disagreement, even if you don't want to call it a disagreement about facts. And if you ask people about why they think their policy will have good consequences, they will usually explain that they also disagree about various facts.