Update after 3 days: This exercise turned out to be simpler than I expected. On one hand, this community seems to include a disproportionately large number of people who’ve actually read some Hegel. On the other hand, it was possible to spot the correct paragraph without even taking into account the meaning of the text. Nice catch, Richard_Kennaway!
Until now, we have four comments explaining their methodology, and I am happy to see that the correct paragraph was found through many different considerations I hadn’t thought of. I am now wondering if the absence of wrong guess is due to real ease of this exercise for the average LW user, or at least partially to selection bias (eg people who guessed wrong didn’t leave a comment).
I got it wrong.
I don’t remember what my wrong guess was though, or why. Just that it looked like Hegel (based on what I read of the paragraph, which wasn’t a lot) - i.e. nonsense. (Which could be because it’s translated.)
I got it wrong.
I don’t remember what my wrong guess was though, or why. Just that it looked like Hegel (based on what I read of the paragraph, which wasn’t a lot) - i.e. nonsense. (Which could be because it’s translated.)