I think it generally means “there’s nothing I want to draw your attention to”.
Agreed.
This combines to make me believe that it’s just an epistemic mistake to take words literally most of the time, at least without a fair bit of prior agreement and contextual sharing about what those words mean in that instance.
Agreed.
And I take as completely obvious that the vast majority of social interactions are more contextual and indirect than overt legible information-sharing.
I think the big thing I disagree on is that this is always obvious. Thought of in the abstract like this I guess I agree that it is obvious. However, I think that there are times when you are in the moment where it can be hard to not interpret words literally, and that is what inspired me to write this. Although now I am realizing that I failed to make that clear or provide any examples of that. I’d like to provide some good examples now, but it is weirdly difficult to do so.
However, the words are a small part of evidence available to you, and since you’re human, you’ll almost always have to use heuristics and shortcuts rather than actually knowing your priors, the information, or the posterior beliefs.
Agreed. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, even though I might have.
It sounds like we mostly agree.
Agreed.
Agreed.
I think the big thing I disagree on is that this is always obvious. Thought of in the abstract like this I guess I agree that it is obvious. However, I think that there are times when you are in the moment where it can be hard to not interpret words literally, and that is what inspired me to write this. Although now I am realizing that I failed to make that clear or provide any examples of that. I’d like to provide some good examples now, but it is weirdly difficult to do so.
Agreed. I didn’t mean to imply otherwise, even though I might have.