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Dagon comments on A rational unfalsifyable believe - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Dagon 29 July 2016 04:03:30PM 0 points [-]

That just moves it up a level. If she is rational, she'll say "if our relationship was genuine, I want to believe it was genuine. If our relationship was not genuine, I want to believe it was not genuine".

The OP and most of the discussion has missed the fundamental premise of rationality: truth-seeking. The question is not "is Eve rational", but "is Eve's belief (including acknowledgement of uncertainty) correct"?