most people, while engaging in real-time conversations, do not feel this discomfort of having insufficient time and resources to verify the other participant’s claims (or for that matter, to make sure that one’s own speech is not erroneous).
this relates back to the what was mentioned higher up about people having differing goals for their conversation. the default goal is to strengthen, weaken, or confirm status positions. non-status information is often considered incidental. also note that hardly anyone is conscious of this.
Conversation is not about information.
Conversation is not only/mostly about information. FTFY
this relates back to the what was mentioned higher up about people having differing goals for their conversation. the default goal is to strengthen, weaken, or confirm status positions. non-status information is often considered incidental. also note that hardly anyone is conscious of this.