I don’t think we should eliminate connotations from the language, if that’s what you’re asking.
But in cases where we’re trying to use X-Treme Rationality on things that have otherwise resisted debate, we have to use special techniques make the problem more tractable. And one such technique is positivist thinking and putting a big wall up between connotations and denotations.
I don’t think we should eliminate connotations from the language, if that’s what you’re asking.
But in cases where we’re trying to use X-Treme Rationality on things that have otherwise resisted debate, we have to use special techniques make the problem more tractable. And one such technique is positivist thinking and putting a big wall up between connotations and denotations.
I like your acronym.
Thanks for the correction. This makes much more sense as a technique than a general principle.
Added your acronym to main post. Please do not doci. Adboc instead.
I don’t suppose it’s possible to view the version history of the post, so can you state for posterity what “DOCI” used to stand for?
It appears to have been something like “denotation OK, connotations iffy”. (Someone objects to “iffy” in one of the comments.)