Maybe it’s just my experience with Orthodox Judaism, but the backpedal exegesis ratio—if, perhaps, computed as a sense of mental weight, more than a number of words—seems to me like a pretty important quantity when explaining others.
I could see it being important in some situations, definitely, if I’m understanding the purpose of the measurement correctly.
My understanding is that it’s actually intended to measure how much the new interpretation is changing the meaning of the original passage from the meaning it was originally intended to have. That’s difficult to measure, in most cases, because the original intended meaning is generally at least somewhat questionable in cases where people attempt to reinterpret a passage at all.
In this case, I’m trying not to change your stated meaning (which doesn’t seem ambiguous to me: You’re indicating that far-future societies are likely to have changed dramatically from our own, including changing in ways that we would find offensive, and that they can function as societies after having done so) at all, just to explain why your original meaning is more plausible than it seems at first glance. If I’ve succeeded—and if my understanding of your meaning and my understanding of the function of the form of measurement are correct—then the ratio should reflect that.
Maybe it’s just my experience with Orthodox Judaism, but the backpedal exegesis ratio—if, perhaps, computed as a sense of mental weight, more than a number of words—seems to me like a pretty important quantity when explaining others.
I could see it being important in some situations, definitely, if I’m understanding the purpose of the measurement correctly.
My understanding is that it’s actually intended to measure how much the new interpretation is changing the meaning of the original passage from the meaning it was originally intended to have. That’s difficult to measure, in most cases, because the original intended meaning is generally at least somewhat questionable in cases where people attempt to reinterpret a passage at all.
In this case, I’m trying not to change your stated meaning (which doesn’t seem ambiguous to me: You’re indicating that far-future societies are likely to have changed dramatically from our own, including changing in ways that we would find offensive, and that they can function as societies after having done so) at all, just to explain why your original meaning is more plausible than it seems at first glance. If I’ve succeeded—and if my understanding of your meaning and my understanding of the function of the form of measurement are correct—then the ratio should reflect that.