(I realize it might be not be clear how that sentence followed from the previous point, since there’s nothing intrinsically non-gearsy about introspection. The issue is something like “at least some of the people exploring introspection techniques are also coming at it from fairly different frames, which can’t easily all communicate with each other. From the outside, it’s hard to tell the difference between ‘a person is wrong about facts’ and ‘a person’s frame is foreign.’”)
So the connection is “The straightforward way to increase epistemological competence is to talk about beliefs in detail. In introspection it is hard to apply this method because details can’t be effectively shared to get an understanding”. It seems to me it is not about gear-frames being special but that frames have preconditions to get them to work and an area that allows/permits a lot of frames makes it hard to hit any frames prequisities.
(I realize it might be not be clear how that sentence followed from the previous point, since there’s nothing intrinsically non-gearsy about introspection. The issue is something like “at least some of the people exploring introspection techniques are also coming at it from fairly different frames, which can’t easily all communicate with each other. From the outside, it’s hard to tell the difference between ‘a person is wrong about facts’ and ‘a person’s frame is foreign.’”)
So the connection is “The straightforward way to increase epistemological competence is to talk about beliefs in detail. In introspection it is hard to apply this method because details can’t be effectively shared to get an understanding”. It seems to me it is not about gear-frames being special but that frames have preconditions to get them to work and an area that allows/permits a lot of frames makes it hard to hit any frames prequisities.