Against Modal Logics — LessWrong
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Continuation of: Grasping Slippery Things Followup to: Possibility and Could-ness, Three Fallacies of Teleology …
x Against Modal Logics — LessWrong Philosophy Reductionism Personal Blog 73 Against Modal Logics by Eliezer Yudkowsky 27th Aug 2008 5 min read 63 73 Continuation of : Grasping Slippery Things Followup to : Possibility and Could-ness , Three Fallacies of Teleology When I try to hit a reduction problem, what usually happens is that I "bounce" - that's what I call it. There's an almost tangible feel to the failure, once you abstract and generalize and recognize it. Looking back, it seems that I managed to say most of what I had in mind for today's post, in " Grasping Slippery Things ". The "bounc
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