A four-step method for resolving confusions about meaning.https://meaningness.com/finding-complete-stance …
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This feels mushy on a first pass, and I (probably) know (some of) what you're talking about. It reads to me like you're floating at a very specific level of abstraction through the whole passage, which can come off as drone-y. Maybe that's unavoidable, though.
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I was afraid of that! (text message from yesterday)pic.twitter.com/WbEPv7r3Nw
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OTOH, this isn’t a stand-alone essay or blog post; it’s very much in the middle of a book, at which point that level of abstraction, and the conceptual machinery needed to support it, are supposed to have been established.
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Yeah, I figured. Unbroken sections of high abstraction are sometimes unavoidable but they make lazy readers like me run out of endurance fast. Then again, I'm not the intended audience!
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I have no idea who my intended audience is for this part! Some people seem to like it though
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I really mean it too! To frame it I literally came out of the closet of abstraction recently. (Literally, yes. The closet of abstraction is an abstraction, which I came out of. Literally. The action of coming out of it was literally taken. Albeit inside.) Such a relief!
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