bug#46627: [External] : bug#46627: [PATCH] Add new help command 'describe-command'

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> CC: "larsi@gnus.org" <larsi@gnus.org>, "rms@gnu.org" <rms@gnu.org>,
>         "46627@debbugs.gnu.org" <46627@debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2021 21:34:21 +0000
> 
> Apropos...
> 
> Coming back to this, as I just happened to be reading
> Paul Graham's essay "Novelty and Heresy" today, and
> it rang a bell...

It's strange to have such a discussion in a context of a bug report...

> The positive takeaway, beyond the case of using
> completion for discovery?
> 
>   The depressingly large dead zones around mistaken
>   assumptions [can] become excitingly large mines of
>   new ideas.

AFAIU, this is a classical circular logic fallacy: assume that an idea
is a smart one and everyone opposed to it is silly or mistaken, and
everything else follows.

What if it's the other way around?