What’s the difference between “Alice is falling victim to confusions/reasoning mistakes about X” and “Alice disagrees with me about X”?
I suspect that, for Alex Turner, writing the former instead of the latter is a signal that he thinks he has identified the specific confusion/reasoning mistake his interlocutor is engaged in, likely as a result of having seen closely analogous arguments in the past from other people who turned out (or even admitted) to be confused about these matters after conversations with him.
I suspect that, for Alex Turner, writing the former instead of the latter is a signal that he thinks he has identified the specific confusion/reasoning mistake his interlocutor is engaged in, likely as a result of having seen closely analogous arguments in the past from other people who turned out (or even admitted) to be confused about these matters after conversations with him.