I mean, outside of labeling the parts of what I’m trying to describe, what is it you want out of a description? what is the datatype of “argument” that you want—evidence? logical derivation from an already shared evidence base? it seems to me that we can just erase away the names of the definitions I gave, and then what I gave is… both of those things. so I’m trying to figure out what it’s missing that you want to see, other than “fewer unnecessary words such as new names of terms”.
I mean, outside of labeling the parts of what I’m trying to describe, what is it you want out of a description?
Can you explain what this means?
Assuming it’s just asking for what the request was, then; the outline of a potentially convincing argument.
what is the datatype of “argument” that you want—evidence?
It’s unclear what ‘datatype of “argument”’ means either, you can see already how difficult it is to have substantial discussions if one party could potentially use words with differing meanings and/or custom terminology.
But I’ll assume ‘datatype of “argument”’ just means ‘type of argument’, otherwise you’ll have to explain it too.
If so, you are free to pursue any line that seems promising.
It could be a statistical analysis, it could be a purely formal logical derivation, it could be inferences, induction, etc...
I’ll stick to answering just the first two questions to keep the comment chain easily readable.
I mean, outside of labeling the parts of what I’m trying to describe, what is it you want out of a description? what is the datatype of “argument” that you want—evidence? logical derivation from an already shared evidence base? it seems to me that we can just erase away the names of the definitions I gave, and then what I gave is… both of those things. so I’m trying to figure out what it’s missing that you want to see, other than “fewer unnecessary words such as new names of terms”.
Can you explain what this means?
Assuming it’s just asking for what the request was, then; the outline of a potentially convincing argument.
It’s unclear what ‘datatype of “argument”’ means either, you can see already how difficult it is to have substantial discussions if one party could potentially use words with differing meanings and/or custom terminology.
But I’ll assume ‘datatype of “argument”’ just means ‘type of argument’, otherwise you’ll have to explain it too.
If so, you are free to pursue any line that seems promising.
It could be a statistical analysis, it could be a purely formal logical derivation, it could be inferences, induction, etc...
I’ll stick to answering just the first two questions to keep the comment chain easily readable.