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Re:Show HN: How to discuss with opinionated people using the... by m_mueller on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:05AM (#15081620)
I think you're concentrating on the wrong word - reliability. That doesn't seem the central assumption of Anthony here, it's just an attribute to arrive at the central assumption: That there is a universal truth, i.e we all live in the same world, only our models of that world are different (i.e. subjective).
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Re:Show HN: How to discuss with opinionated people using the... by cJ0th on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @10:21AM (#15081721)
> That doesn't seem the central assumption of Anthony here,

Yes, that's my point. It's the interviewer who has this idea that faith should be reliable and that's what I was questioning. Or did you mean the interviewer (Anthony with an h) ? I am a bit confused right now..

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Re:Show HN: How to discuss with opinionated people using the... by m_mueller on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @07:01PM (#15085962)
Yes I mean the interviewer. Your critique of is argument is based on his use of reliability - I find that tangential. His main assumption is that of a universal truth - faith being unreliable is just what follows. So are you saying that there is no universal truth or that faith is somehow exempt from the search for truth?
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