("Snow is white" is true) if and only (snow is white)
"if and only IF", isnt it?
the notion of truth is quite different
Broken link to http://yudkowsky.net/bayes/truth.html
Not only the culture of disagreement takes place. When I see "+1", I think what a mind processes do that: commenter needs some attention but have nothing to say? And so when I want to post "+1", I do not do that, for someone didn't think the same about me. Usually I'm trying to make some complement to original post, or little correction to it with clear approval of the rest. Something not important and, at the same time, not just "+1".
There is a way to solve this problem, but it dangerous. Rationalist can watch discussion clos...
It is the simpliest answer. Totally correct, but I hoped for more, when clicking title.
- It is not enough to read news media to get the context, allowing to judge reliability of news. I'd propose to read some books, to take a bigger picture, to grasp historical process which we are part of. To grasp some idea of metaphysics of human history. I couldn't explain what it is, because it is too comple
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