In order to prove that it is a problem, you have to find a real world situation that I’ve called incorrectly due to my decision to start reasoning from a theoretical model.
In general that’s hard without knowing many real world situations that you have judged.
But there’s a recent example. The fact that different people won’t come up with different definitions of knowledge if you ask them would be one recent example of concentrating too much on a definition and too little on actually engaging with what different people think.
In order to prove that it is a problem, you have to find a real world situation that I’ve called incorrectly due to my decision to start reasoning from a theoretical model.
In general that’s hard without knowing many real world situations that you have judged. But there’s a recent example. The fact that different people won’t come up with different definitions of
knowledge
if you ask them would be one recent example of concentrating too much on a definition and too little on actually engaging with what different people think.