I like the frame of explaining the ontology in which your claim is true separately from arguing for it. I agree that this can happen with very non-gears-y models, but I imagine that’s because the models are still sufficiently gears-like…
For example, the MTG color-wheel isn’t very gears-y, because it taps into subjective conceptual clusters which differ from person to person. But, the extent that I’m using it as an explanation rather than a rationalization seems like it has to do with the extent to which I’m relying on stuff that definitely follows from the framework vs stuff that’s more subjective (and it depends on the extent to which it’s a canonical application of the MTG color wheel vs a case where you usually wouldn’t invoke it).
Well, so one thing I’m sometimes trying to do is not justify a claim but justify paying attention to the claim, so the kind of thing I’m doing is not presenting evidence that it’s true but just evidence that something sufficiently interesting is happening near the claim that it’s worth paying attention to. I think this can get pretty non-gearsy in some sense; I’m often relying on mostly nonverbal intuitions in myself and hoping to trigger analogous nonverbal intuitions in someone else.
I like the frame of explaining the ontology in which your claim is true separately from arguing for it. I agree that this can happen with very non-gears-y models, but I imagine that’s because the models are still sufficiently gears-like…
For example, the MTG color-wheel isn’t very gears-y, because it taps into subjective conceptual clusters which differ from person to person. But, the extent that I’m using it as an explanation rather than a rationalization seems like it has to do with the extent to which I’m relying on stuff that definitely follows from the framework vs stuff that’s more subjective (and it depends on the extent to which it’s a canonical application of the MTG color wheel vs a case where you usually wouldn’t invoke it).
Well, so one thing I’m sometimes trying to do is not justify a claim but justify paying attention to the claim, so the kind of thing I’m doing is not presenting evidence that it’s true but just evidence that something sufficiently interesting is happening near the claim that it’s worth paying attention to. I think this can get pretty non-gearsy in some sense; I’m often relying on mostly nonverbal intuitions in myself and hoping to trigger analogous nonverbal intuitions in someone else.