I think the main harm here to be avoided is that if people use a lot of “clutter” then that is a a very low ratio of beliefs to language used. The clutter could come from true scottmanning from one defeated position repeatedly or making overtly disjunctive claims or any such bias.
However I think the important thing there is that the claim is central rather than the strongest. If your main reason to belief something is weak that is not an excuse for not going with it. If you have a lot of non-impactful technicalities that are easily defended but your real crux is frankness seeking conversation will put the weak crux forward.
I think having single claims where truth or belief hinges violates conservation of evidence. But because some things are reasons to believe something doesn’t mean they are so equally. The sin is in burying a high-weight claim/factor under or over a low-weight one. If you are asked to list 3 reasons why you belief a claim and you list your 4th, 5th and 6th that hides the true cruxes. But if you give only 1 and claim that it would be erroneuos to have 2nd and 3rd you are commiting a kind of black and whiteness that erases nuance you could easily be aware of.
Say that the claim was that there is a unicorn in my closet. Then even if I “saw a unicorn” in my closet I would still think that it is a animatronic costume or a fraudulent tuned up horse quite likely even if I can’t come up with any more striking or “direct” evidence to the direction of there being a unicorn.
While it can be an error to not have considered some things I do think that “mootness structures”, not having really thought about some things are real. In those cases you really only start to think about it when the base claims to make the question meaningful get believed. Expecting people to provide the hinge question on all of their claims implicitly means they have thought about the logical structure of their beliefs. Logical omnisience is nice but it is also hard. Rather in discussion “surprising implications” are not a sign of lazyness or dishonesty per se. People that make non-central claims on deeply debated topics or on fields they should know about are deceptive because they talk about the aspects they know/feel they are right about rather than parts they know or should know are wrong about. And this in effect is a failure to apply mootness. If people knew/ were aware of the more central stuff they would not be motivated to talk about the fringe stuff. But with some attention control we end up talking about stuff that should be moot.
I think the main harm here to be avoided is that if people use a lot of “clutter” then that is a a very low ratio of beliefs to language used. The clutter could come from true scottmanning from one defeated position repeatedly or making overtly disjunctive claims or any such bias.
However I think the important thing there is that the claim is central rather than the strongest. If your main reason to belief something is weak that is not an excuse for not going with it. If you have a lot of non-impactful technicalities that are easily defended but your real crux is frankness seeking conversation will put the weak crux forward.
I think having single claims where truth or belief hinges violates conservation of evidence. But because some things are reasons to believe something doesn’t mean they are so equally. The sin is in burying a high-weight claim/factor under or over a low-weight one. If you are asked to list 3 reasons why you belief a claim and you list your 4th, 5th and 6th that hides the true cruxes. But if you give only 1 and claim that it would be erroneuos to have 2nd and 3rd you are commiting a kind of black and whiteness that erases nuance you could easily be aware of.
Say that the claim was that there is a unicorn in my closet. Then even if I “saw a unicorn” in my closet I would still think that it is a animatronic costume or a fraudulent tuned up horse quite likely even if I can’t come up with any more striking or “direct” evidence to the direction of there being a unicorn.
While it can be an error to not have considered some things I do think that “mootness structures”, not having really thought about some things are real. In those cases you really only start to think about it when the base claims to make the question meaningful get believed. Expecting people to provide the hinge question on all of their claims implicitly means they have thought about the logical structure of their beliefs. Logical omnisience is nice but it is also hard. Rather in discussion “surprising implications” are not a sign of lazyness or dishonesty per se. People that make non-central claims on deeply debated topics or on fields they should know about are deceptive because they talk about the aspects they know/feel they are right about rather than parts they know or should know are wrong about. And this in effect is a failure to apply mootness. If people knew/ were aware of the more central stuff they would not be motivated to talk about the fringe stuff. But with some attention control we end up talking about stuff that should be moot.