universalising a preference against universalising any *other* preferences
@maradydd It's convenient to encode 'I will not use construction universalize' as 'for all contexts X, I will not universalize(X)'
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@maradydd but it's not necessary; one need simply *not* adjoin universalize() to one's toolkit. -
@St_Rev For sure you can, and I know I can, but I'm not sure everyone else can. -
@maradydd eh, universalizing is a habit of mind that takes a lot of training in a particular kind of abstraction. doesn't have to be. -
@St_Rev Folks sure do get trained up in it without realising that's what they're doing, though. -
@maradydd yeah, I have a ten-part essay on the subject sketched in my head but only wrote the first part
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