I was just aiming to stimulate thought about the possibility.
(On a side note, this phrase is an anti-epistemic cliché, usually used to make a privileged hypothesis more salient.)
You don’t need to “stimulate thought” about this, everyone already agrees. The reason that caused you to use this argument seems to be that meditation is on the side it argues for, but there is no merit to the argument itself, since it states the obvious and doesn’t improve meditation’s (or anything else’s) case. Do you still endorse that argument as worth making?
More charitably, the original confusion probably started from interpreting wedrifid’s comment as arguing for status quo, followed by an argument against status quo that would be correct given that assumption.
More charitably, the original confusion probably started from interpreting wedrifid’s comment as arguing for status quo, followed by an argument against status quo that would be correct given that assumption.
FWIW I think that is how I understood wedrifid’s comment, though I failed to articulate this when you asked me about my purpose.
Then, it’s incorrect that in context your argument was vacuous, since if one says that 2+2=5, it’s still worth arguing that 2+2=4, however obvious that is. On the other hand, motivated cognition was still probably the cause of interpreting wedrifid’s comment that way.
(On a side note, this phrase is an anti-epistemic cliché, usually used to make a privileged hypothesis more salient.)
You don’t need to “stimulate thought” about this, everyone already agrees. The reason that caused you to use this argument seems to be that meditation is on the side it argues for, but there is no merit to the argument itself, since it states the obvious and doesn’t improve meditation’s (or anything else’s) case. Do you still endorse that argument as worth making?
More charitably, the original confusion probably started from interpreting wedrifid’s comment as arguing for status quo, followed by an argument against status quo that would be correct given that assumption.
FWIW I think that is how I understood wedrifid’s comment, though I failed to articulate this when you asked me about my purpose.
Then, it’s incorrect that in context your argument was vacuous, since if one says that 2+2=5, it’s still worth arguing that 2+2=4, however obvious that is. On the other hand, motivated cognition was still probably the cause of interpreting wedrifid’s comment that way.
No. Thanks for being patient and clearing that up for me.
To sum up, it seems that due to (perhaps unconscious) motivated cognition I failed in at least two ways:
I didn’t initially examine the purpose of my comment closely.
I didn’t spot the vacuousness of my comment upon reflection before posting.