The article seems indirectly relevant to example 4, in which an epistemic dispute about how to divide up categories is getting mixed with a prudential dispute on which things to prioritize. Once a category is clearly designated as “that which is to be prioritized,” it becomes more expensive to improve the expressive power of your vocabulary by redrawing the conceptual boundaries, since this might cause your prioritization to deteriorate.
Possibly the right way to proceed in that case would be to work out a definition of the original category which more explicitly refers to the reasons you think it’s the right category to prioritize, perhaps assigning this a new name, so that these discussions can be separated.
The article seems indirectly relevant to example 4, in which an epistemic dispute about how to divide up categories is getting mixed with a prudential dispute on which things to prioritize. Once a category is clearly designated as “that which is to be prioritized,” it becomes more expensive to improve the expressive power of your vocabulary by redrawing the conceptual boundaries, since this might cause your prioritization to deteriorate.
Possibly the right way to proceed in that case would be to work out a definition of the original category which more explicitly refers to the reasons you think it’s the right category to prioritize, perhaps assigning this a new name, so that these discussions can be separated.