In any case, I agree that clarifying the terms as they are used is worthwhile. (Although one caveat is that if a term / concept is incoherent, there is an upper limit to how much clarity can be achieved in discerning how the term is used! But even in this case, the attempt is worthy.)
I think that’s true, but also that additional valiant attempts to clarify incoherent terms that still leave them seeming very unclear and incoherent might help us gain further evidence that the terms are worth abandoning entirely. Sort of like just trying a cure for some disease and finding it fails, so we can rule that out, rather than theorising about why that cure might not work (which could also be valuable).
(That said, that wasn’t my explicit intention when I wrote this post—it just came to mind as an interesting possible bonus and/or rationalisation when I read your comment.)
I think that’s true, but also that additional valiant attempts to clarify incoherent terms that still leave them seeming very unclear and incoherent might help us gain further evidence that the terms are worth abandoning entirely. Sort of like just trying a cure for some disease and finding it fails, so we can rule that out, rather than theorising about why that cure might not work (which could also be valuable).
(That said, that wasn’t my explicit intention when I wrote this post—it just came to mind as an interesting possible bonus and/or rationalisation when I read your comment.)