I sometimes find it hard to distinguish between people who are cleverly deflecting & people with genuinely confused thinking.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I usually assume it's the latter & waste lots of time clarifying distinctions & principles & the point to eventually recognise bad faith.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
But sometimes I think it's bad faith when its actually someone who does make all kinds of strange conflations & confusions totally sincerely
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Replying to @HPluckrose
And I'm not saying that from a position of assumed superiority where I do not conflate & confuse things which are different & distinct.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I am hopelessly confused on many issues & entirely ignorant of many more and I appreciate ppl being patient & explaining them simply to me.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
twitter is really the wrong place for this. But I suspect many are suffering internal cognitive dissonance.
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Replying to @Dianora_1
Socratic *might* work with some people, but "Argumentum ad Twitterum" in fact all social media is wrong place.
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I don't think so. Its clarified my thinking and changed my mind for the better on so many issues.
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