I think I’ve been calling it “salvaging”. To salvage a concept/word allows us to keep using it mostly the same, and to assign familiar and intuitive symbols to our terms, while intensely annoying people with the fact that our definition is different from the normal one and thus constantly creates confusion.
I just say, “parable of the purple creatures” when I talk to friends, who I have talked about this with before and understand the concept.
It came up yesterday for me when I was talking to a friend and he was like, “If God made some rules that he would punish us for not following, but the rules weren’t intrinsically motivating, should we call that moral realism?” And I was like parable of the purple creatures bro.
This concept seems sufficiently useful that it should have a name
This seems very closely related to a classic sequences post: Disguised Queries
I think I’ve been calling it “salvaging”. To salvage a concept/word allows us to keep using it mostly the same, and to assign familiar and intuitive symbols to our terms, while intensely annoying people with the fact that our definition is different from the normal one and thus constantly creates confusion.
I just say, “parable of the purple creatures” when I talk to friends, who I have talked about this with before and understand the concept.
It came up yesterday for me when I was talking to a friend and he was like, “If God made some rules that he would punish us for not following, but the rules weren’t intrinsically motivating, should we call that moral realism?” And I was like parable of the purple creatures bro.