Well I am more familiar with settings where I have a duty to understand the world rather than the world having the duty to explain itself to me. I also hold that having unfamiliar things hit higher standards creates epistemic xenophobia. I would hold it important that one doesn’t assign falsehood to a claim they don’t understand. Althought it is also true that assigning truth to a claim one doesn’t understand is dangerous to relatively same caliber.
My go-to assumption would be that Steve understands something different with the word and might be running some sort of moon logic in his head. Rather than declare the “moon proof” to be invalid it’s more important that the translation between moon logic and my planet logic interfaces without confusion. Instead of using a word/concept I do know wrong he is using a word or concept I do not know.
“Coherent” usually points to a concept where a sentence is judged on it’s home logics terms. But as used here it’s clearly in the eye of the beholder. So it’s less “makes objective sense” and more a “makes sense to whom?”. The shared reality you create in a discussion or debate would be the arbiter but if the argument realies too much on those mechanics it doesn’t generalise to contextes outside of that.
I also just think there are a lot of Steves in the world who are holding on to belief-claims that lack specific referents, who could benefit from reading this post even if no one is arguing with them.
Well I am more familiar with settings where I have a duty to understand the world rather than the world having the duty to explain itself to me. I also hold that having unfamiliar things hit higher standards creates epistemic xenophobia. I would hold it important that one doesn’t assign falsehood to a claim they don’t understand. Althought it is also true that assigning truth to a claim one doesn’t understand is dangerous to relatively same caliber.
My go-to assumption would be that Steve understands something different with the word and might be running some sort of moon logic in his head. Rather than declare the “moon proof” to be invalid it’s more important that the translation between moon logic and my planet logic interfaces without confusion. Instead of using a word/concept I do know wrong he is using a word or concept I do not know.
“Coherent” usually points to a concept where a sentence is judged on it’s home logics terms. But as used here it’s clearly in the eye of the beholder. So it’s less “makes objective sense” and more a “makes sense to whom?”. The shared reality you create in a discussion or debate would be the arbiter but if the argument realies too much on those mechanics it doesn’t generalise to contextes outside of that.
Sure, makes sense.
I also just think there are a lot of Steves in the world who are holding on to belief-claims that lack specific referents, who could benefit from reading this post even if no one is arguing with them.