RE: META: Dishonest debate (was "cluster bombs")

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Sat Jun 14 2003 - 20:16:23 MDT

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    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote,
    > Aside from quibbles of terminology, I agree. The indicator is evidence,
    > as virtually everything is, but that evidence does not support their
    > conclusion.
    >
    > The reason I'm quibbling is because of statements like "that source of
    > information is unsupportable and should not be used", as opposed to "that
    > conclusion does not follow".

    Ah! Correction accepted. I should have said, "that source of information
    is unsupportable and should not be used as evidence to support their
    conclusion." 

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