I think this is an excellent summary, and I agree with almost all of it. My only claim is that it’s easy to think that deconfusion is only useful when it results in formalization (when it is complete by your sense) but that isn’t actually true, especially at the point where we are in the field. And I’m simply pointing out that for some concrete applications (reasons for which we want to be able to use a concept without spouting nonsense), going to this complete formalization isn’t necessary.
But yeah, if you have totally deconfused a concept, you should be able to write it down as a mathematical model/program.
I think this is an excellent summary, and I agree with almost all of it. My only claim is that it’s easy to think that deconfusion is only useful when it results in formalization (when it is complete by your sense) but that isn’t actually true, especially at the point where we are in the field. And I’m simply pointing out that for some concrete applications (reasons for which we want to be able to use a concept without spouting nonsense), going to this complete formalization isn’t necessary.
But yeah, if you have totally deconfused a concept, you should be able to write it down as a mathematical model/program.