There is a broad set of practices involving is something like “understanding other people’s reasons”. We currently don’t have good terminology for carving up that space. The two terms that have caught on, ITT and steelmanning, refer to pretty specific activities within that space and the thing-to-do often isn’t either of those.
In this case, I read OP as saying that he didn’t see any overlap between a) the set of relevant considerations for deciding whether to support or oppose Catalan secession and b) the set of things that might cause a person to emphasize that the referendum was illegal according to the Constitution of Spain. My comment was an attempt to gesture at something that seemed like it might be in the intersection of those two sets. It was intentionally left relatively vague—the point is to see if there’s something there, not to flesh out precisely what it is or to capture what exactly is going on in the person’s head.
This seemed like a useful move to make within “understanding other people’s reasons” space, in this context. It is not an attempt at the ITT, and as far as I know doesn’t have a concise label. The OP framed his post in the context of the ITT (saying something like: I don’t even see how I could get started with constructing an ITT entry), so I did too (saying something like: well here’s a sketch of an argument which you can use to get started on constructing an ITT entry).
There is a broad set of practices involving is something like “understanding other people’s reasons”. We currently don’t have good terminology for carving up that space. The two terms that have caught on, ITT and steelmanning, refer to pretty specific activities within that space and the thing-to-do often isn’t either of those.
In this case, I read OP as saying that he didn’t see any overlap between a) the set of relevant considerations for deciding whether to support or oppose Catalan secession and b) the set of things that might cause a person to emphasize that the referendum was illegal according to the Constitution of Spain. My comment was an attempt to gesture at something that seemed like it might be in the intersection of those two sets. It was intentionally left relatively vague—the point is to see if there’s something there, not to flesh out precisely what it is or to capture what exactly is going on in the person’s head.
This seemed like a useful move to make within “understanding other people’s reasons” space, in this context. It is not an attempt at the ITT, and as far as I know doesn’t have a concise label. The OP framed his post in the context of the ITT (saying something like: I don’t even see how I could get started with constructing an ITT entry), so I did too (saying something like: well here’s a sketch of an argument which you can use to get started on constructing an ITT entry).