in a way that demeans someone not participating in the discussion
How is this relevant? Like, if I have a map that I claim reflects the territory, and you’re saying that my map demeans someone who’s not here, that doesn’t say anything about whether the map predicts features of the territory that, in fact, aren’t there.
atypical social understanding, not [...] underlying ambiguity
This is kind of mind-projection-fallacious. Situations that look unambiguous if your expectations are already calibrated to them can be a lot harder to decipher for people with atypical social understanding, like foreigners, children, or (in this case) otherwise-mostly-ordinary adults recovering from a psychotic break.
How is this relevant? Like, if I have a map that I claim reflects the territory, and you’re saying that my map demeans someone who’s not here, that doesn’t say anything about whether the map predicts features of the territory that, in fact, aren’t there.
This is kind of mind-projection-fallacious. Situations that look unambiguous if your expectations are already calibrated to them can be a lot harder to decipher for people with atypical social understanding, like foreigners, children, or (in this case) otherwise-mostly-ordinary adults recovering from a psychotic break.