When someone asks me, “What is X?”, I automatically rephrase the question as “Tell me what you know about X that is relevant and significant in the present context.” Up, down, sideways is not the point. I tell them whatever I can that seems to me that they do not know and need to know, and steer according to their response.
When someone asks me, “What is X?”, I automatically rephrase the question as “Tell me what you know about X that is relevant and significant in the present context.” Up, down, sideways is not the point. I tell them whatever I can that seems to me that they do not know and need to know, and steer according to their response.
Well, meta rationality helps you be less wrong.