This is an interesting technique for explaining one’s “map”: upvoted. However I think one should still be careful not to update on fictional evidence (more precisely to update on the fact that this is the map the given person constructed rather than update on the assumption this is the territory).
Right, that’s true. In the particular case of The Things They Carried, I’d trust O’Brien moderately well to depict what the Vietnam War was like, since he participated in it.
This is an interesting technique for explaining one’s “map”: upvoted. However I think one should still be careful not to update on fictional evidence (more precisely to update on the fact that this is the map the given person constructed rather than update on the assumption this is the territory).
Right, that’s true. In the particular case of The Things They Carried, I’d trust O’Brien moderately well to depict what the Vietnam War was like, since he participated in it.