Hm, I might be having a brain fart but I’m not seeing it. My point is that people will make an argument “A is true based on X, Y and Z”, someone will point out “it’s not obvious that Y”, and that comment is useful because it leads to a discussion about whether Y is true.
Gotcha. I appreciate you pointing it out. I’m glad to get the feedback that it initially wasn’t clear, both for self-improvement purposes and for the more immediate purpose of improving the title.
(It’s got me thinking about variable names in programming. There’s something more elegant about being concise, but then again, humans are biased towards expecting short inferential distances, so I probably should err on the side of longer more descriptive variable names. And post title!)
I think you might have reversed your opening line?
Hm, I might be having a brain fart but I’m not seeing it. My point is that people will make an argument “A is true based on X, Y and Z”, someone will point out “it’s not obvious that Y”, and that comment is useful because it leads to a discussion about whether Y is true.
Suggested title: If it’s not obvious, then how do we know it’s true?
Changed to “It’s not obvious” is a useful critique.
Okay, I thought you intended to say “People claim ‘it’s obvious that X’” when X wasn’t obvious. Your new title is more clear.
Gotcha. I appreciate you pointing it out. I’m glad to get the feedback that it initially wasn’t clear, both for self-improvement purposes and for the more immediate purpose of improving the title.
(It’s got me thinking about variable names in programming. There’s something more elegant about being concise, but then again, humans are biased towards expecting short inferential distances, so I probably should err on the side of longer more descriptive variable names. And post title!)