I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure that “I can respond to any claim he’s likely to make” isn’t it. I’m not sure there is such a thing at all, short of having your idea be outright unfalsifiable.
It seems like there something that the OP means with “making excuses in advance”. It might not what you think would be rightly called “making excuses in advance”.
I don’t think that category exists in a way where it can be successfully used to distinguish people who have anticipations and are identified with a belief from people who are just identified with it.
What empiric standard would you use to classify things as making excuses in advance?
I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure that “I can respond to any claim he’s likely to make” isn’t it. I’m not sure there is such a thing at all, short of having your idea be outright unfalsifiable.
It seems like there something that the OP means with “making excuses in advance”. It might not what you think would be rightly called “making excuses in advance”.
I don’t think that category exists in a way where it can be successfully used to distinguish people who have anticipations and are identified with a belief from people who are just identified with it.