From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Nov 13 2002 - 03:09:55 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
>
> Just in case I anticipate your answer, recall that some properties
> (e.g. tallness) occur as a matter of degree. Hence I may say that
> George Washington was tall, yet concede that if historical research
> began to revise his height downward, my statement would become
> progressively less true over time, as his true height was determined
> to less and less.
YIKES! I think you meant to say that the statement would be false and
would have always been false, but our knowledge of this falsity would
increase progressively over time.
-- Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/ Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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