Downvoted for telling me what I’m arguing for and against, for something like the third time now, when I am fairly certain that our intuitive ideas of how abstraction works are somewhat different. This is one of the few things that breaks my internal set of “rules for a fair argument.”t.
I made no “intuitive” statements about “how abstraction works”. Ever.
Your positional statements made it quite clear that your objection to S-O S’s was in the fact that they are an abstraction.
You repeatedly made several arbitrary statements about representative symbols and how they would “have” to be that I demonstrated to be inaccurate of how abstraction is done.
I never make the statement, “You are arguing X” unless it is factually and demonstrably true. You stated that you “distrusted” “this method” (“this method” being the use of symbols without referents) of abstraction… but unfortunately, that’s all abstraction is; “making maps.” If you don’t like it when someone tells you what you are or aren’t arguing for or against, don’t put yourself into a position where those statements would be true. If you had said, “The sky is blue”, and I told you, “You are saying the sky is blue”, would you also react so childishly?
The rest of your post is simply too long for me to bother with. This topic has gone beyond my threshold of conversational utility: you demonstrate that you will accept nothing I say at any point and are merely arguing for the sake of arguing. Case in point:
If a group is truly tangential to a topic, how do you decide which features are important enough to include in your abstraction?
They are topical. This is a tautology. And this marks at least the second time I’ve called out your continuing to riddle the topic with questions that have already been answered or have answers whose very questions demonstrate them. This is not the mark of an honest conversant.
Further:
Generally speaking, that is not representations work in my mind. The phrase “generalizing from one example” is ringing a bell right now.
This directly contradicts the very definition of the word, “abstraction”. Abstraction—and mental representation is never anything BUT abstraction—is definitionally constructing simulacra within the mind.
I point this out as yet another demonstrative example of your arguing for what I can only describe merely the sake of arguing.
Rounding this out:
I suspect that my attitude towards unqualified generalizations is very similar to your attitude toward qualified generalizations. They seem like useless maps to me because I don’t use them and don’t really know how to.
No. This is a flat-out false characterization of my position and I have explicitly disagreed with it. I said nothing of the sort. Ever. And I haven’t been arguing in favor of such a position.
You are A) misrepresenting me. B) refusing to accept basic definitions of terminology relevant to this topic, C) continuously raising questions that have already been answered, amongst other things.
I’ll not be responding to you in this topic again.
I made no “intuitive” statements about “how abstraction works”. Ever.
Your positional statements made it quite clear that your objection to S-O S’s was in the fact that they are an abstraction.
You repeatedly made several arbitrary statements about representative symbols and how they would “have” to be that I demonstrated to be inaccurate of how abstraction is done.
I never make the statement, “You are arguing X” unless it is factually and demonstrably true. You stated that you “distrusted” “this method” (“this method” being the use of symbols without referents) of abstraction… but unfortunately, that’s all abstraction is; “making maps.” If you don’t like it when someone tells you what you are or aren’t arguing for or against, don’t put yourself into a position where those statements would be true. If you had said, “The sky is blue”, and I told you, “You are saying the sky is blue”, would you also react so childishly?
The rest of your post is simply too long for me to bother with. This topic has gone beyond my threshold of conversational utility: you demonstrate that you will accept nothing I say at any point and are merely arguing for the sake of arguing. Case in point:
They are topical. This is a tautology. And this marks at least the second time I’ve called out your continuing to riddle the topic with questions that have already been answered or have answers whose very questions demonstrate them. This is not the mark of an honest conversant.
Further:
This directly contradicts the very definition of the word, “abstraction”. Abstraction—and mental representation is never anything BUT abstraction—is definitionally constructing simulacra within the mind.
I point this out as yet another demonstrative example of your arguing for what I can only describe merely the sake of arguing.
Rounding this out:
No. This is a flat-out false characterization of my position and I have explicitly disagreed with it. I said nothing of the sort. Ever. And I haven’t been arguing in favor of such a position.
You are A) misrepresenting me. B) refusing to accept basic definitions of terminology relevant to this topic, C) continuously raising questions that have already been answered, amongst other things.
I’ll not be responding to you in this topic again.