Are you saying people should never casually make such claims about apples and tomatoes? I haven’t tried to parse your comments in detail, apologies if I’m misunderstanding. But they seem to be implying a huge amount of friction on conversation that does not seem practical to me. (i.e. only discuss things if you’re going to take the time to clarify details of your model. The reasons we have clusters and words and shorthand is because that’s a lot of effort that most of the time isn’t worth it)
A model should generally be clear enough to be falsifiable. It might be okay for a paragraph to not expand an idea in enough detail for that but when there’s a >3800 word essay about a model that avoids being falsifiable and instead is full with applause lights I do consider that bad.
Are you saying people should never casually make such claims about apples and tomatoes? I haven’t tried to parse your comments in detail, apologies if I’m misunderstanding. But they seem to be implying a huge amount of friction on conversation that does not seem practical to me. (i.e. only discuss things if you’re going to take the time to clarify details of your model. The reasons we have clusters and words and shorthand is because that’s a lot of effort that most of the time isn’t worth it)
A model should generally be clear enough to be falsifiable. It might be okay for a paragraph to not expand an idea in enough detail for that but when there’s a >3800 word essay about a model that avoids being falsifiable and instead is full with applause lights I do consider that bad.