What part of the essay do you find to be misleading (explicitly or implicitly*)?
I didn’t say the essay was misleading. I said a descriptor could be misleading. That’s what the article I linked talks about, and the post discusses a similar phenomenon, where true descriptors are interpreted as attacks (and I claim that some of the examples in the post seem to be similar to Scott’s examples of non-central members of categories).
The linked essay is at the address, but doesn’t include the address, so actually the post includes more than the linked essay.
I do not understand what this sentence is saying. When you say “address”, are you talking about the URL?
Since whether or not something “is” a ‘central’ example is defined relative to an ontology, I am asking “what is your ontology”, in particular that the OP’s remarks serve as a ‘non-central’ usage?
Did you read the linked essay?
Yes. (Content-wise, the linked essay is also the post.**)
What part of the essay do you find to be misleading (explicitly or implicitly*)?
*Connotation
**The linked essay is at the address, but doesn’t include the address, so actually the post includes more than the linked essay.
I didn’t say the essay was misleading. I said a descriptor could be misleading. That’s what the article I linked talks about, and the post discusses a similar phenomenon, where true descriptors are interpreted as attacks (and I claim that some of the examples in the post seem to be similar to Scott’s examples of non-central members of categories).
I do not understand what this sentence is saying. When you say “address”, are you talking about the URL?
Yes.
What descriptors do you find to be misleading?
Same ones Scott talks about in his essay. E.g. “MLK was a criminal.”
And remember, misleading connotations. The descriptor itself is technically correct.
Since whether or not something “is” a ‘central’ example is defined relative to an ontology, I am asking “what is your ontology”, in particular that the OP’s remarks serve as a ‘non-central’ usage?
This ontology, essentially: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/WBw8dDkAWohFjWQSk/the-cluster-structure-of-thingspace