That, to me, is nonsensical. A “tabooing” is a move where you replace the name of a concept/phenomenon/thing with a description of that thing. Here you instead proposed to substitute a description of some other thing. That is not rationalist taboo, that is something else—something very different.
I agree, I was suggesting a different concept. I shouldn’t have said that it was namespacing, since that implies I would have been proposing an alternate definition of akrasia, whereas it would have made more sense to abandon akrasia (IE you’re right).
What I was really trying to do there shouldn’t by any means be seen as a “local definition” (IE I’m wrong).
(quoting gjm)
Merely as one datapoint, and without any claim that anyone else should do as I do: I find abramdemski’s usage of “taboo” a bit weird; for me, not using the tabooed word is an essential feature, and even though defining terms clearly and explicitly is closely related and accomplishes, or at least aims to accomplish, the same goals—I wouldn’t myself call it “tabooing”.
In this case, it seems clear that actually omitting the word entirely would have been much better, since it would not have resulted in this sub-disagreement. I was using “taboo” as shorthand for find-and-replace style substitution in the claims I had made, but it would have been better to just perform the substitution, so as to avoid any implicit claim that the substitution could have been what I originally meant by “akrasia”.
Glad to see you and Said resolve this disagreement, with gjm’s help (who I think deserves a lot of credit for jumping in with a really clear explanation of what went wrong and how to fix it).
(quoting Said)
I agree, I was suggesting a different concept. I shouldn’t have said that it was namespacing, since that implies I would have been proposing an alternate definition of akrasia, whereas it would have made more sense to abandon akrasia (IE you’re right).
What I was really trying to do there shouldn’t by any means be seen as a “local definition” (IE I’m wrong).
(quoting gjm)
In this case, it seems clear that actually omitting the word entirely would have been much better, since it would not have resulted in this sub-disagreement. I was using “taboo” as shorthand for find-and-replace style substitution in the claims I had made, but it would have been better to just perform the substitution, so as to avoid any implicit claim that the substitution could have been what I originally meant by “akrasia”.
Glad to see you and Said resolve this disagreement, with gjm’s help (who I think deserves a lot of credit for jumping in with a really clear explanation of what went wrong and how to fix it).