Benya comments on Things philosophers have debated

Benya 31 Oct 2012 6:13 UTC
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Pfft, I don’t see what’s so funny about the end. If it had been $n v D a s h p w e d g e n e g p$ , alright, that would have been somewhat ironic at least, but
)? Nobody was even arguing against that.
- Stuart_Armstrong 31 Oct 2012 10:23 UTC
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  I saw “You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.” as the amusing ending...
- Kingoftheinternet 31 Oct 2012 16:45 UTC
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  Trivialists are!
  - Maelin 1 Nov 2012 2:35 UTC
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    But they weren’t. Trivialists certainly do assert that
    ) is true, and so is $p w e d g e n e g p$
    - Kingoftheinternet 1 Nov 2012 15:08 UTC
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      A trivialist would insist that “Trivialists argue $\neg (p \land \neg p$ ) is false” is true. Believing that you’re arguing something isn’t quite the same as arguing something, but I wanted to point out that under trivialism, trivialists think they’re arguing for and against all propositions simultaneously.